Last September, Justice Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down three provisions in Canada’s Criminal Code: living off the avails of prostitution; keeping a common bawdy house; and communicating in a public place for the purpose of engaging in prostitution, reported the Kingston Whig-Standard Feb. 18, in a series examining the […]
Osgoode Hall Law School’s Innocence Project, which provides up to 10 Juris Doctor (JD) students every year with supervised clinical work on cases of suspected wrongful conviction, is the driving force behind a constitutional challenge over preservation of evidence in murder cases. The students, who are supervised by Innocence Project Director and Professor Alan Young […]
A Superior Court justice gutted the federal prostitution law in Ontario on Tuesday, allowing sex-trade workers to solicit customers openly and paving the way for judges in other provinces to follow suit, wrote The Globe and Mail Sept. 29: Justice Susan Himel struck down all three Criminal Code provisions that had been challenged – communicating […]
DNA evidence is popularized in cop and legal dramas as proof of irrefutable guilt, but it’s only as solid as the conditions under which it is collected. Alan Young, professor of criminal law in York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, was featured in a Globe & Mail article on the dark side of DNA evidence on […]