Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC” or the “Court”) in R v Wong, 2018 SCC 25 [Wong, SCC] held that guilty pleas must be informed. This means that the accused must be aware of the nature of the allegations made against him/her, the effect of the plea, and the collateral consequences of the plea, […]
This guest post was contributed by third-year Osgoode Hall Law School student Jamie Shilton (JD, Class of 2019). No serious assessment of the Canadian criminal justice system would be complete without an observation that its normal, everyday functioning incarcerates vast and disproportionate numbers of Black and Indigenous peoples. In a recent article, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and […]
As the extensive reach of the Internet continues to blur borders, so too are issues of legal jurisdiction increasingly entwined. Courts are now frequently called upon to reconcile a once novel question: are our current laws still appropriate in a digital age? The rise of the Internet particularly challenges Canadian courts to determine when they […]
On December 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada (the “Court”) released Deloitte & Touche v Livent Inc., 2017 SCC 63 [Livent], a decision in which the Court refined the framework for analyzing a defendant’s duty of care in cases of negligent misrepresentation of performance of a service. This decision has far-reaching consequences for auditors, […]