The ReeveLaw Blog

IF A COURT DECISION SEEMS RIDICULOUS IT’S USUALLY BECAUSE YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT – This decision did not say what you think it did.

https://www.canadalandshow.com/no-intoxication-is-not-a-legitimate-defence-for-sexual-assault-in-ontario/

SASKATCHEWAN – Impaired driving fatalities, injuries in province hit record low in 2019: SGI. Is this a cultural shift?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/impaired-driving-fatalities-drinking-saskatchewan-1.5621723

Assist citizen call. Police attend. Citizen dead.

SIU

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/62-year-old-man-dead-after-police-involved-shooting-in-mississauga-siu-investigating-1.4993281

Canadian Police Killed Second Indigenous Person in a Week – Yet another reason why the entire concept of policing has to be re-evaluated.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkygwy/canadian-police-killed-rodney-levi-second-indigenous-person-in-a-week

Police Killed a Young Indigenous Woman In New Brunswick During Wellness Check – “the officer fired five times” Yet another reason why the entire concept of policing has to be re-evaluated.

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/n7wn4z/police-killed-a-young-woman-in-new-brunswick-during-wellness-check?utm_source=stylizedembed_vice.com&utm_campaign=n7wzdd&site=vice

Dashcam Video Shows Canadian Police Jump Tackling, Punching Indigenous Chief –

“RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki said the force doesn’t have a systemic racism problem and she “struggles” with the term.” Yet another reason why the entire concept of policing has to be re-evaluated.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wzdd/dashcam-video-shows-police-jump-tackling-punching-indigenous-chief

Two Canadian Police Officers Have Been Charged After Killing Potential Witness – Yet another reason why the entire concept of policing has to be re-evaluated.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azb39/two-canadian-police-officers-have-been-charged-after-killing-potential-witness

SUSPENDED POLICE OFFICER COLLECTS $1 MILLION+ – Yet another reason why the entire concept of policing has to be re-evaluated.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5pyqy/toronto-cop-who-has-been-paid-dollar1-million-on-suspension-nears-legal-decision

“Supreme Court chief justice suggests Criminal Code changes to cut into court backlogs.”

Significant changes are absolutely necessary however efficiency and expediency have never been a factor sufficient to justify the truncation of rights or processes in the solemn search for the truth. A backlog does not justify short cuts.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stefanovich-chief-justice-reopening-proposals-1.5604773

Since peremptory challenges to a jury panel have been eliminated it looks like we are going to move more towards the U.S. model of examining and screening each and every prospective juror.

Judges have generally been reluctant to expand the scope of questioning of jurors.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/06/15/asking-prospective-jurors-are-you-racist-doesnt-cut-it-when-trying-to-detect-bias-in-the-courtroom-experts-say.html?fbclid=IwAR3wDJPWfKTZNOe382hrnM8_Ar2KJqfIch6sxLkOhFsFHJ1JO-0CpGp2b44