#ThisIsNotConsent: Relevant Evidence in Sexual Assault Trials
NB: This post contains descriptions of sexual violence Recently, a rape trial in Ireland made international headlines following the...
Sexual Assault: Defences, Judicial Interpretations and Recent Cases (R v He and R v McCaw)
The Canadian legal system has made progress in cases of sexual assault in the most recent years but there is still a lot of challenges to...
The Al-Rawi Appeal & The Role of Circumstantial Evidence for Assessing Capacity to Consent in Se
NB: This post contains sexual violence Sexual assault is a topic that has been extremely prevalent in the media and has proven to be a...
Is the Media the New Crown Prosecutor? Celebrity, Sexual Assault and Scandal in Canada (a law studen
Louis CK, Kevin Spacey, Jian Ghomeshi, and now Jacob Hoggard. You don’t even need to know how to spell their names correctly and you will...
Cultural Unawareness of the Law – An Untenable and Inexcusable Defense
“Ignorance of the law by a person who commits an offence is not an excuse for committing that offence”,<1> is a statement that is cited...
