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Working Papers and Other Documents

MANITOBA LAW JOURNAL|PREPRINTS VOLUME 46 (2023 & AFTER)

We would like to acknowledge the support of the Faculty of Law Legal Research Institute in making these publications possible

EDITORS: DR. RICHARD JOCHELSON, PROFESSOR BRANDON TRASK, DR. MELANIE MURCHISON, DR. REBECCA JAREMKO, DR. JAMES GACEK, VICKY LIU & HEATHER PETERSON (STUDENT EDITORS)

2024

 Sentencing in Line with Society: R v Bunn and the Manitoba Court of Appeal’s Use of Social Understanding as a Justification for Increased Sentences 

NOAH LESIUK

 Infanticide Provisions in a Contemporary Context: Should They Stay, or Should They Go? 

JOSHUA PERL 

Morbid Matters: Medical Assistance in Dying in Federal Corrections

Gacek, James; Jochelson, Richard; Trask, Brandon; Corcoran, Lauren; Ranieri, Marisa

No Safeguard on Duty: Expert Evidence in Aquatic Death Cases

Love, Helene; Lam, Vienna C; Taylor-Baer, Charlotte M.

 Role Call: Can a Backbench Legislator Practice as a Criminal Defence Lawyer? A Legal Ethics Analysis 

ANDREW FLAVELLE MARTIN & BRANDON TRASK

 Speaking into a Void: Parliamentary Action Ignored in Sexual Violence Sentencing 

JONATHAN AVEY & BRYTON M.P. MOEN

 Deprivation in Criminal Fraud: Dissecting the Court of Appeal’s split in Landry 

SAMUEL MAZZUCA

 Crown Attorneys, The Attorney General, and Judicial Discipline: A Comment on Lauzon v Ontario (Justices of the Peace Review Council) 

ANDREW FLAVELLE MARTIN

Getting Rid of the Riot Act

C O L T O N  F E H R & S T E V E N  P E N N E Y

 Crown Prosecutors and Government Lawyers: A Legal Ethics Analysis of Under-Funding 

 ANDREW FLAVELLE MARTIN

 Book Review of Robert Diab and Chris D.L. Hunt, Search and Seizure (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2023) 

COLTON FEHR

2023

Year in Review: March 2021-June 2023

EDITED BY MAYA YUEL

Final Versions of Volume 46:

Volume 46(4)

Volume 46(5)

Volume 46(6)

 Les femmes autochtones victimes de violence sexuelle – leur réalité et les obstacles dont elles doivent faire face 

 CLAUDIA GUERTIN

Ushering in a New Era: Assessing the Reasonable Expectation of Privacy vis-àvis Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Data

N O A H  L E S I U K

 A Rush to Justice: The Institution of Presumptive Ceilings in R v Jordan and Their Potential Implications for Wrongful Convictions 

DEVON MEDEIROS & MICHELLE I. BERTRAND

Mental Illness, Health Care, and Assisted Death: Examining Parameters for Expanding or Restricting MAID under Canada's Charter and Federal System

MARY J SHARIFF, DEREK BM ROSS, AND TRUDO LEMMENS

Property, Civil Forfeiture and the Charter 

M A R K  S O O

“Interrogators often use honey, not vinegar, in pursuit of the truth”: Resistance, the Constitutional Right to Silence and Judicial Responses to Cell-Plant Operations

A M A R  K H O D A Y

Criminal Wealth Law: From Maple Syrup to Hells Angels and Unexplained Wealth Orders

M I C H E L L E  G A L L A N T

Obstructed Gynecology: Inaccess to Reproductive Health Care for Incarcerated Women as a Violation of Section 7 of the Charter

M E G A N  M A C K I N N O N

Harm to Self-Identity: Reading Goffman to Reassess the Use of Surreptitious Recordings as Evidence

R O B E R T  D I A B

 Criminalizing Coercive Control in Canada: Learning from an International Comparative Analysis 

JOEY CARRIER 

To Serve and Protect the Mental Cost of Policing

N I K K I  B O G G S

Establishing Police Accountability: How Do We Stop Charter Violations from Happening?

L A U R E N  G O W L E R

Racializing Terror: Reassessing the Motive of the Motive Clause

P R A B J O T  S I N G H

 

Body Worn Cameras (BWCS): Privacy vs Solid Evidence

S T A N I S L A V A  Z G U R O V A

 Charter, Constitutionality and the Honour of the Crown: Considering an Additional Constraint 

ADAM STRÖMBERGSSON-DENORA & REBECCA JAREMKO BROMWICH

 Ending Human-Animal Maltreatment Cycles Through the Use of Trauma-Informed Therapy 

JESSICA A. CHAPMAN

Limitations of the Common Law Adversarial Process: How Independent Judicial Research Could Have Avoided the Wrongful Conviction in R v Mullins-Johnson

H E A T H E R  H U I - L I T W I N

Mr. Big Operation Scripts Post-Hart

A N D R E W  E Y E R

Vitiating Consent for Sexual Assault Causing Bodily Harm: Should Jobidon Apply to Sexual Activities?

M O N A  A B D O L R A Z A G H I

Zora, the Charter, and the Youth Criminal Justice Act: Defending the Rights of Youths is the Responsibility of all Court Participants

H I L L A R I E  T A S C H E

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