Criminal Law

Canadian courts are increasingly asked to allocate fraud losses between innocent parties—victims and their financial institutions. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal's decision in Honeybadger Enterprises Ltd. v. Bue provides crucial clarity on common law principles governing liability allocation, establishing that parties whose conduct involves affirmative acts facilitating fraud will bear the loss, while financial institutions owe no duty to police transactions or warn customers absent contractual obli

I recently had reason to reconsider the question of whether, in Ontario, there is a two-year or no limitation period for sexual assault where one of the parties to the alleged assault has died. I wanted to know if there had been further case law developments on this question since my 2016 blog on the topic, “Court Breaks New Ground for Sexual Assault Cases.” I was surprised to see that, ten years later, the question has yet to be answered in a clear and conclusive manner.

The founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) have won a major constitutional challenge against the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, which prohibited the implementation of their non-medicalized safer supply program in the context of the toxic drug crisis.