reasonable apprehension of bias

Finding a Reasonable Apprehension of Bias: Stuart Budd v IFS Vehicle Distributors

Everyone has the right to a fair trial. This foundational principle was undermined in Stuart Budd & Sons Limited v IFS Vehicle Distributors ULC, 2015 ONSC 519 [IFS, Motion]. On appeal, the Ontario Court of Appeal (“ONCA”) determined that a reasonable and informed objective observer would consider the motion judge, Justice Corbett, to have displayed […]

‘Sentencing Stereotypes’? Racism in the Legal Profession in LSUC v McSween

In our first year torts class, our professor told us that those people who came to law school thinking that they were going to change the world had come to the wrong place. The law, by its nature, is a conservative institution. It follows social momentum, it doesn’t create it; it is complicit in the […]