The Admissibility of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Proceedings

By Sabrina Shillingford Increasingly, the Crown is relying on rap videos as evidence of guilt in criminal proceedings. Derstine Penman has been privy to this in cases including allegations of drug trafficking, involvement in a criminal organization, and murder. The reliance on rap as evidence of criminality has the greatest impact on Black […]

Getting drunk is NOT a defence to sexual assault: Misleading Headlines in the Media

By Laura Remigio “Ontario Court of Appeal rules intoxication can be used as a defence in sexual assault and violent crimes cases”. This was the headline on CP24 and other news outlets in relation to the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in R. v. Sullivan, 2020 ONCA 333. (The full decision can be read […]

The Broad Power to Search: A Racial Profiling Veil

by Renée E.M. Gregor, Associate As Professor Tanovich states in his oft-cited text, “The colour of justice in Canada is white”.[1] In Ontario specifically, our courts and jails are plagued by a vast over-representation of black males in the South and Indigenous males in the North. The GTA is no stranger to the targeting […]

THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE RECENT LEGAL AID CUTS ONTARIO

By: Adam Newman, Associate “Under the Ontario legal aid certificate system, it is because defence lawyers are willing to accept legal aid certificates and provide competent and effective counsel to accused facing criminal charges that the state is able to fulfill its constitutional obligation.” (R v Peterman, 2004 CarswellOnt 1694 ONCA at Para 20) […]

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The Admissibility of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Proceedings

Getting drunk is NOT a defence to sexual assault: Misleading Headlines in the Media

The Broad Power to Search: A Racial Profiling Veil

THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE RECENT LEGAL AID CUTS ONTARIO