Month: January 2017

Despite the overwhelming barrage of news coming from the U.S., there have been plenty of important cases and stories in criminal law here in Canada. News: Toronto citizen Waseed Khan filmed the arrest and tasing of a man by the Toronto Police and was told by police...

It has now been just over six months since one of the most important cases of 2016, R v. Jordan, was released. In it, the Supreme Court of Canada established a presumptive ceiling of 18 months delay in getting a case to trial at the provincial court level. If a case...