Criminal
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June 21, 2024
New director of the Public Prosecution Service announced
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani recently announced the appointment of George Dolhai as the new director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC), effective June 21, 2024.
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June 20, 2024
Ottawa lists Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity in Criminal Code
The Government of Canada listed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code, effective June 19, 2024.
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June 19, 2024
Cowboys and Crypto
Digital assets can take many forms, including cryptocurrency, NFTs and digital bonds. Regardless of the form, they usually have these defining features: they are decentralized, securely housed on the blockchain and accessible to anyone with an internet connection. These features allow the digital asset industry to be used to impose the rule of law in corrupt jurisdictions by offering financial inclusion and decreasing reliance on corrupt banks or governments.
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June 18, 2024
More Russians sanctioned for complicity in Putin regime’s responsibility for death of Alexei Navalny
Ottawa has sanctioned 13 additional senior officials and high-ranking employees of Russia’s investigation agency, penitentiary service and police force, who Global Affairs Canada says “were involved in the ill-treatment and death” of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who survived the Putin regime’s attempt to fatally poison him in 2020, only to die this year in a Russian prison.
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June 19, 2024
3 judicial appointments in Quebec
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani announced in a June 18 press release two judicial appointments to the Superior Court of Quebec —Louis Marquis and Audrey Boctor — as well as the appointment of Myriam Lachance to the Court of Appeal of Quebec.
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June 19, 2024
Alberta Court of Appeal murder case illustrates perils of plea bargain rejection
The lawyer for Michael Anthony Roebuck had negotiated a plea bargain with the Crown that would have resulted in a plea of second-degree murder and a much shorter period of parole ineligibility than the Airdrie, Alta., resident received after being convicted of first-degree murder.
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June 18, 2024
Nunavut turns to public in bid to fix child protection system
Family welfare officials in Nunavut are inviting residents to weigh in on developing an “action plan” to fix the territory’s troubled child protection system.
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June 17, 2024
From clicks to courtroom: Leveraging web data in disputes, part two
As part of the ongoing article series, we are exploring how the increasing availability of web data can impact litigation and considerations of lawyers when seeking and analyzing information to better support their cases. Our focus for this article is on TikTok data.
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June 17, 2024
APPEALS — Grounds — Unreasonable verdict
Appeal by Roebuck from his conviction for first-degree murder of MacDonald on grounds that Crown did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt his actions were planned and deliberate and verdict was unreasonable. Roebuck and MacDonald knew each other for years and became good friends.
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June 19, 2024
Errors in trial decision no guarantee for successful appeal
Three homicides that occurred in 2007 had police investigators stymied for years. Then, on Dec. 18, 2014, a 101-year-old D-Day veteran, Ernest Côté, was found murdered at his home. Police charged Orleans, Ont., resident Ian Bush with the murder. While Bush was undergoing psychiatric examination and found fit to stand trial, Ottawa police, with the help of forensics, linked the Côté killing to the deaths of the Chief Justice of the Tax Court, Albon Garon, his wife Raymonde and their neighbour, Marie-Claire Boniskos.