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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 8, 2023 6:15 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The judge presiding over Peter Nygard’s sexual assault trial is expected to give his final instructions to the jury today before they begin deliberating their verdict in the case. The jury …
Read More »‘Freedom Convoy’ trial: Judge expected to deliver ruling on police evidence
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 3, 2023 7:37 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The judge in the criminal trial of two “Freedom Convoy” organizers is expected to deliver a ruling Friday about the admissibility of internal police documents as evidence. Crown prosecutors and the …
Read More »Judge finds Manitoba man not responsible for killing parents, attacking hospital worker – Winnipeg
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 17, 2023 12:41 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Winnipeg judge has found a man not criminally responsible for killing his parents and attacking a hospital nursing supervisor. Court heard Trevor Farley had been in psychosis at the time …
Read More »Saskatchewan judge to hear injunction application over school pronoun policy
A Saskatchewan judge is to hear an injunction application that seeks to halt the province’s policy affecting children who use different pronouns at school. Lawyers for UR Pride, an organization representing LGBTQ2 people in Regina, are to argue in favour of the injunction. The lawyers from Egale Canada and McCarthy Tetrault LLP …
Read More »B.C. judge allows cannabis ‘fire sale’ after CRA threatens to destroy product
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has approved the bulk sale of more than 1,200 kilograms of cannabis by a company after the Canada Revenue Agency threatened to destroy it. In a ruling released online this week, the court allowed Tantalus Labs Ltd. to move ahead with a hasty sale …
Read More »Manitoba judge acquits two men convicted in 1973 killing in Winnipeg – Winnipeg
A judge has granted an acquittal to two First Nations men convicted of killing a restaurant worker in Winnipeg a half-century ago. Chief Justice Glenn Joyal of the Court of King’s Bench told Brian Anderson and Allan Woodhouse that they are innocent and deserve acquittals, resulting in an eruption of …
Read More »‘I feel free’: Judge acquits two Manitoba men convicted in 1973 killing in Winnipeg – Winnipeg
As Brian Anderson and Allan Woodhouse emerged from the law courts in downtown Winnipeg Tuesday afternoon, a crowd erupted in applause. Only moments before, the two were acquitted of killing Ting Fong Chan, a restaurant worker who was stabbed to death in 1973 near a downtown construction site. “Life is …
Read More »Nova Scotia appoints new provincial judge amid backlog of court cases – Halifax
A new judge has been added to Nova Scotia’s provincial court, filling one of the two remaining vacancies on the bench. In a release from the province on Friday, it was announced that Angela Caseley, a federal Crown attorney from Bedford, was appointed to the position with her tenure effective …
Read More »Quebec judge nixes request from Muslim group to suspend ban on school prayer rooms
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 14, 2023 9:59 am Updated June 14, 2023 10:13 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Quebec Superior Court judge has denied a request to suspend the province’s ban on prayer room spaces in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties …
Read More »N.S. judge acquits man accused of sexual assault, saying he couldn’t be clearly identified
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 23, 2023 12:09 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size A judge has acquitted a Halifax man charged in a 2018 sexual assault after concluding the accused couldn’t be clearly identified as one of two rapists. Provincial court Judge Jill …
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