Lawyers oppose plan for blanket intelligence source protection
OTTAWA – Proposed anti-terrorism legislation that would extend blanket protection to spy sources could seriously endanger the fairness of court proceedings, warn two lawyers with deep experience...
View ArticleSupreme Court refuses to hear case of Ottawa man wanted by France
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the case of an Ottawa sociology professor wanted by French authorities in a decades-old terrorism case. The high court refused today to examine Hassan...
View ArticleSupreme Court refuses to hear case of Ottawa man wanted by France
OTTAWA – An Ottawa sociology professor is a big step closer to being extradited to France for questioning about the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue. The Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday it would...
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Quebec trial lawyer Suzanne Cote appointed to Supreme Court
OTTAWA — An experienced Quebec trial lawyer has been appointed to fill a vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court of Canada. Suzanne Cote, who has been a member of the Quebec bar since 1981, is the...
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Is the Supreme Court review process dead? Was it ever really alive?
Sean Kilpatrick/CP This morning, the Prime Minister announced a new appointment to the Supreme Court. The new appointment does not seem to have been preceded by a review of an all-party selection...
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Top court says police have limited right to search suspect’s phone
Chris Wattie/Reuters OTTAWA — A divided Supreme Court of Canada says the police can conduct a limited search of suspect’s cellphone when they are arrested without getting a search warrant, but they...
View ArticleSupreme Court decides right to strike in Saskatchewan case
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada rules later today on whether the charter protects the right to strike, a decision that could affect public sector employees across the country. The high court will...
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High court strikes down ban on doctor-assisted death
Carmine Marinelli /Vancouver 24hrs/QMI OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously struck down the ban on providing a doctor-assisted death to mentally competent but suffering and...
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On assisted suicide, the Supreme Court confronts Parliament’s cowardice
No matter strikes at the heart of fundamental individual liberty more than decisions involving one’s own life or death. Until today, Canadian law made it illegal to assist someone in dying under any...
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What we’re talking about when we talk about ‘judicial activism’
Sean Kilpatrick/CP In the wake of landmark decisions on assisted suicide and the right to strike (among others), there appears to be a new renaissance for decrying the “judicial activism” of the...
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Four stories we’re watching in Canada
Sean Kilpatrick/CP SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE GUN FIGHT BETWEEN FEDS AND QUEBEC Canada’s top court is expected to hand down a ruling today on whether the Quebec government can keep data it compiled for...
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Five stories in Canada we’re watching
Gleb Garanich/Reuters CANADA EXPECTED TO HELP TRAIN UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS Canada appears set to join a U.S.-led mission to help trail the Ukrainian military. A defence source says training troops –...
View ArticleSupreme Court to rule on mandatory sentences for gun crimes
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada is to rule this morning on another part of the Harper government’s tough-on-crime agenda. The court is deciding two appeals involving mandatory minimum sentences...
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Top court strikes down mandatory minimums for gun crimes
Chris Wattie/Reuters OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Harper government’s law requiring mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes is unconstitutional. By a 6-3 margin, the high...
View ArticleFederal consultation on doctor assisted dying yet to materialize
OTTAWA – Two months after Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised to consult widely on doctor-assisted dying, the federal government has yet to reveal how it intends to canvass Canadians’ views on the...
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Alberta judge Russell Brown named to Supreme Court
Chris Wattie/Reuters OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has named Alberta Court of Appeal Justice Russell Brown as his latest appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. Brown, a former barrister...
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How conservative is new Supreme Court judge Russell Brown?
Justice Russell Brown is congratulated upon his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. (University of Alberta) In what’s possibly a Canadian judiciary first, the incoming Supreme Court of Canada...
View ArticleJustice minister to review extradition case
OTTAWA — The federal government announced Wednesday it has decided to review an extradition case involving a Canadian citizen facing abduction charges in the U.S. The woman at the centre of the case,...
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Parliamentary committee on assisted dying still awaiting members
Sean Kilpatrick/CP OTTAWA — The Trudeau government appears to be in no hurry to grapple with the explosive issue of doctor-assisted dying, even as it prepares to urge the Supreme Court next week to...
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Could Scalia’s death change the course of the U.S. election?
In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia looks into the balcony before addressing the Chicago-Kent College Law justice in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast,...
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Obama faces political puzzle in naming Scalia successor
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in March 2014. (David Tulis, AP) WASHINGTON – As the White House carries out a rare election-year search for a Supreme Court nominee, President Barack Obama’s...
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Obama chides senators to ‘do their job,’ vote on court pick
President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool) WASHINGTON –...
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Supreme Court agrees to hear case on search injunction against Google
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear Google’s appeal of a British Columbia injunction ordering the Internet titan to stop linking to a company that’s being sued for trademark infringement....
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Scalia’s death looms over US election
In this Oct. 18, 2011 file photo, U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia looks into the balcony before addressing the Chicago-Kent College Law justice in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast,...
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Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell to retire in September
Justice Thomas Cromwell laughs as he listens to speakers during a ceremony officially welcoming him to the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Cromwell is retiring Sept. 1,...
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What if new law on assisted dying isn’t enacted by June 6?
OTTAWA — Medical regulators in every province have issued detailed guidelines doctors must follow to help suffering patients end their lives once Canada’s ban on medically assisted dying is formally...
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A province-by-province look at assisted death guidelines
(Sean Kilpatrick, CP) OTTAWA — The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in every province and one of three territories have issued guidelines that doctors must follow in providing medical assistance in...
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Assisted death bill up for third reading in the Commons
(Chris Wattie, Reuters) OTTAWA — The Trudeau government’s controversial assisted dying bill is expected to receive third and final reading today in the Commons, before heading to the Senate. MPs voted...
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How a new appointment process ushers in Supreme Court transparency
Chris Wattie/Reuters The new Supreme Court appointments process announced today stands as a considerable break from the past approach of behind-the-scenes selection at the virtually unfettered...
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Legal eagles: A roundtable about the Supreme Court appointment process
The Supreme Court justices pose for a group photo during the official welcoming ceremony for Supreme Court of Canada Justice Suzanne Cote at the Supreme Court, Tuesday Feb.10, 2015 in Ottawa. Do you...
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How Trump could shift the Supreme Court’s agenda
Donald Trump, as president, may have the opportunity to shift the Supreme Court’s priorities. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) WASHINGTON – Even before Donald Trump chooses a Supreme Court nominee, the...
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Alberta woman can’t sue regulator over fracking, says Supreme Court
Jessica Ernst pours out some of the methane contaminated water from her well in Rosebud, Alta., on June 2, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada says an Alberta...
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Trump’s travel ban faces new legal test
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, during the first official phone talks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Saturday,...
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Donald Trump versus the courts
Judge Neil Gorsuch speaks as his wife Louise and President Donald Trump stand with him on stage in East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, after the president announced...
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Hundreds of suspected criminals could be about to go free
Nicole Nayel (right) and Amine Nayel hold a photograph of their son Fouad Nayel. Adam Picard, 33, was charged for the June 2012 killing of Fouad Nayel. Picard first-degree murder charge stayed after a...
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Crown seeks new trial for accused killer who walked free due to court delays
Nicole Nayel (right) and Amine Nayel hold a photograph of their son Fouad Nayel. Adam Picard, 33, was charged for the June 2012 killing of Fouad Nayel. Picard first-degree murder charge stayed after...
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Quebec face-covering ban likely to face Supreme Court challenge
Quebec flag. Photo, Roberto Machado Noa / Lightrocket / Getty MONTREAL – A lot is unknown about how Quebec will implement a new law banning people wearing face veils from receiving public services, but...
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Sheilah Martin appointed as next Supreme Court judge
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Sheilah Martin to the Supreme Court of Canada. Martin served on the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta in Calgary until June 2016 when she was...
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Beverley McLachlin’s final minutes at the Supreme Court
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin (2nd R) takes part in a ceremony at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa on Feb. 10, 2015. REUTERS/Blair Gable (CANADA) Beverley McLachlin didn’t cry only because it’s...
View ArticleThe ‘free the beer’ ruling and the Supreme Court’s record of putting the...
Today’s Supreme Court of Canada decision allowing provincial governments to keep on putting up barriers to beer being shipped across provincial borders is only the latest that comes as a serious...
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