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
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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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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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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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
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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Here’s my post on the use of artificial intelligence by the legal profession and a sample of rulings by Canadian courts 🇨🇦 where lawyers were criticized for filings that contained cases conjured by hallucinating AI tools | #GenAI#Lawyers#LegalEthics https://t.co/JuTCZvKBr5
⚖️ 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
Good opinion response to politicians' populist rage against most recently overturned mandatory minimum sentence. This is why #CharterRights are necessary to protect everyone from the political and even majority whims of the moment. https://t.co/iJivms2WyH
Criminal Defence bar concerned with government overreach in sweeping use of notwithstanding clause by @ABDanielleSmith and the @Alberta_UCP#Red4Ed https://t.co/hRIWFKZMst
Criminal Defence bar speaking out against sweeping use of notwithstanding clause by @ABDanielleSmith and the @Alberta_UCP#Red4Ed https://t.co/rapllqTfpg
“Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist” @cbussewitz 👉🏻 @AP | #courts#lawyers#AI
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Here’s my post on R. v. Liu where the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal 🇨🇦 held that the trial judge erred in admitting the expert opinion of a drug expert resulting in a miscarriage of justice and ordered a new trial | #FairTrials#ExpertEvidence#DrugLaw https://t.co/k6aKd47zH6