prosecutorial judgment

March 20, 2019

Bad Taste

Overzealous prosecutors in Québec charge the author and publisher of a novel with child pornography for describing a rape Continue reading

Constitutional law, Criminal Law/Policy

art, child pornography, free speech, freedom of expression, prosecutorial judgment, Québec
March 21, 2013

Chilling Effect

I wrote a while ago about the case of Matthieu Bonin, a Québec blogger who was accused of incitement to hatred, after making some admittedly tasteless and idiotic statements which, nevertheless, didn’t amount to anything like hate propaganda. Fortunately, as La Presse reports, the charges against him have now been dropped. Yet they should never have Continue reading

Criminal Law/Policy, The Justice System

free speech, freedom of expression, hate speech, prosecutorial judgment
February 3, 2013

Vive le Québec Libre!

Prosecutors in Québec seem to have forgotten that this is a free province in a free country. First, they came for a makeup artist whose gory videos, though involving no actual gore or violence whatsoever, were too realistic for their liking. And then, after a mere busybody concerned citizen complained, they came for a ranting blogger for, apparently, Continue reading

Constitutional law, Criminal Law/Policy

free speech, freedom of expression, hate speech, prosecutorial judgment