Pawel Milczarek 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻

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[CDLA YYC @CDLACalgary]

Our CDLA Champion Award went to our Past President Ian Savage for many years of work on behalf of the criminal defence bar.

[CDLA YYC @CDLACalgary]

@KelseySitar Our 2025 Torchbearer of Justice award went to Mary Stevensen

[CDLA YYC @CDLACalgary]

Our 2025 Defence Lawyer of the Year was Rebecca Snukal K.C. Seen here with our president, @KelseySitar who handed out the award.

[CDLA YYC @CDLACalgary]

Thank you to everyone who made our first annual Criminal Defence awards night a success last week. It was great to see so many of our members, have a chance to socialize and recognize the success of our membership in the practice of criminal defence. #CDLA

[Pawel Milczarek 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻 @PJM_Calgary]

I'll be moving content over to substack from this service. Please follow me there.
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[Sitar & Milczarek @YYCDefence]

This week’s top three summaries: R v Townsend, 2025 BCCA 459: #after the fact, R v ZML, 2025 ONCA 872: accused #fabrication, R v Meeko, 2025 NUCA 12: #bad character

#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw

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[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

An 18-year-old from occupied Crimea was about to be drafted into the Russian army. Instead, he escaped more than 3,000 kilometers and reached Kyiv.

This is the story of Artem, who chose flight over serving the state that occupied his home. — Suspilne 1/

[Sitar & Milczarek @YYCDefence]

This week’s top three summaries: R v Carignan, 2025 SCC 43: s.9 #arrest, R v Stuart, 2025 ABCA 404: #cross & s.276, R v Linklater, 2025 MBCA 104: #eye-witness ID

#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw

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[Sitar & Milczarek @YYCDefence]

This week's top three summaries: R v McDonald, 2025 ONCA 807: Browne v Dunn, R v Brennan, 2025 ONSC 6116: s.8 #marijuana smell, R v MR, 2025 ONCA 789: #appeal bail

#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw

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[Clayton Rice, K.C. @WiretapLawyer]

Here’s my post on cyber insider, Peter Williams, who pleaded guilty to selling trade secrets, stolen from a defence contractor, to a Russian broker for $US1.3 million in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 🇺🇸 | #cybersecurity #cybercrime https://t.co/NDwiRlPVPx

[Sitar & Milczarek @YYCDefence]

This week’s top three summaries: R v Demetroff, 2025 ABCA 373: #after the fact, R v BR, 2025 ABKB 659: s.8 school #principal, R v Robinson, 2025 ABCJ 196: #witnesses

#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw

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[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

NDP - How did the government get advice that a company that had only been in existence for three months was world renowned and then hand them $70 milllion?

UCP - Let's do lunch!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Sitar & Milczarek @YYCDefence]

This week’s top three summaries: R v Bjil, 2025 SKCA 116: #technology, R v Lessard, 2025 ONCA 760: #NCRMD, R v Krelove, 2025 ONSC 6004: #domestic discharge

#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw

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[Pawel Milczarek 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻 @PJM_Calgary]

Hey, @SainiLaw - do you have a fresh "do your dockets" for this time of year? I have a junior that needs some encouragement. #LegalSupport

[Pawel Milczarek 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻 @PJM_Calgary]

Agreed. ⚖️

[Kevin Martin @KMartinCourts]

Martin: No room for political interference in criminal cases https://t.co/hsFfz2DwQn

[Pawel Milczarek 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻 @PJM_Calgary]

@GoA_Justice Some light reading for you folks at Alberta Justice. Charter rights exist for a reason: to protect minorities from the majority whims of the day. #Red4Ed #ProtectTransKids - Who's next?

https://t.co/3huDNo25UA

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Wherein Tanya Fir refers to the next caller on her “callback list” as the “next motherfucker"...

Not knowing that next person was a journalist.

After she failed to hang up the phone properly.

Just the most competent government ever.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Sitar & Milczarek @YYCDefence]

This week’s top three summaries: R v Whitlock, 2025 ONSC 6006: #remand s.12, R v EJ, 2025 ONSC 6016: #self-defence, R v CB, 2025 ONSC 6004: cross-count #similar fact

#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw

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[Sitar & Milczarek @YYCDefence]

⚖️ The Defence Toolkit:
🧑‍⚖️ Mandatory Minimum Sentences — reasonably foreseeable scenarios.
📜 Sexual Assault — Mens Rea absent a mistake defence.
🔍 Rights — intoxicated and rude accused.
Full post 👉 https://t.co/TmzqEPTeAb
#CriminalLaw #CaseLaw #AppealLawyer #TheDefenceToolkit

[Shawn King @KingDefenceYEG]

This is what freedom fighting looks like.

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