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In the Name of God, Go!
The Canadian Judicial Council wants a tardy, cantankerous judge gone. So do I. Continue reading
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Someone’s Got to Do It
Was the Supreme Court right to change the law on the right to a speedy trial? In my last post, I summarized the Supreme Court’s decision in R. v. Jordan, 2016 SCC 27, in which the Court, by a 5-4 majority and over the vigorous disagreement of the concurrence, held that criminals prosecutions in which a Continue reading
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Keeping Time, Time, Time
The Supreme Court changes the meaning of the right to be tried within a reasonable time A couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court issued a very important, and fairly radical, decision on the “right … to be tried within a reasonable time,” which paragraph 11(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms grants to “any Continue reading
Double Aspect 