Criminal Defence
“And with the greatest respect, my lord, I submit that the jury listening to your charge could not help but get the impression that you consider a verdict of guilty was warranted on the evidence,” Steven’s lawyer said. It was as close to calling a judge biased as a lawyer could go. The judge’s five-word …
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I recently watched OsgoodePD’s 2021 Symposium on Sexual Assault available here – not inexpensive, but quite worthwhile. I enjoyed most of it. My favourite part was by far the “debate” between Professor Melanie Randall (“Randall”) and Alan Gold. Randall is a law professor out of Western, and Gold is a legendary criminal defence lawyer (and …
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We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. ― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] I’ve been watching excellent seminars from Professor Sankoff recently. As always, incredible quality and …
Continue reading “The Presumption of Guilt in Sexual Offence Trials in Canada”
I read Professor Elaine Craig’s 2018 book: Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession a year or so ago, and felt quite unsettled. I wanted to address it in a blog post, but then convinced myself that no one would take the book seriously. I then saw that the …
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