🚨 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT – BRIGHT LINES OR BLURRED STANDARDS? POLICE POWERS AND THE CHARTER 🚨
Please join the Runnymede Society’s University of Alberta Chapter for an engaging discussion on police powers and the Charter with Prof. Steven Penney @Steven_Penney (Alberta) next Wednesday, November 26th!
Police powers have increasingly become the domain of judges rather than legislators, but has judicial discretion gone too far? Prof. Penney will explore how the Supreme Court of Canada’s reliance on open-ended standards, like “totality of the circumstances,” might undermine legal clarity, predictability, and fairness. He argues instead for a rules-based approach that provides officers with clear guidance, litigants with reliable expectations, and courts with a consistent framework.
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Despite last week's Supreme Court decision, there's still a path for Ottawa to restore something close to a mandatory minimum sentence, argues @Steven_Penney
📺FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/Igav919Hil
I was incredibly privileged to clerk for the Hon. Gérard V. La Forest, who died last week at the age of 99. You can see my tribute to him here: https://t.co/pVS1r5bB8L
ICYMI: @Steven_Penney: Four ways Poilievre can make ‘stop the crime’ more than a slogan
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.@Steven_Penney: Four ways Poilievre can make ‘stop the crime’ more than a slogan
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To call the reasoning in this decision abstruse would be an understatement. It should (hopefully) be overturned on appeal. But it would not have existed but for the SCC's gonzo decision in Bissonnette, which I criticize here: https://t.co/jJAsFUefYE
New article co-authored with @petersankoff & @NicolePecharsky. The gist: prior inconsistent statements are not truly hearsay and should be presumptively admissible. https://t.co/rUhzJ0nXT4
It was a true privilege to interview and moderate a discussion on free speech with the great Nadine Strossen today. Thanks to @Liberal_Studies and the @RunnymedeSoc@UAlbertaLaw chapter for sponsoring!