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R v Reid – 2019 ONCA 32 (Fairburn): [32] By walking toward the officers, the appellant and his friend were not signalling that they did not wish to have contact with the police. The police and the men simply met up and started to chat. Importantly,the police did not order the appellant to approach them or tell him to stay Read more...

R v Ishmael – 2019 ONSC 596 (Goldstein): [30] I disagree. The justice of the peace erred by applying the ladder principle in a reverse onus situation. I agree with the following statement of Bale J. of this Court in R. v. Sakhiyar, 2018 ONSC 5767, at para. 7, which in turn relies on Justice Trotter’s work on bail: I Read more...

R v Balendra – 2019 ONCA 68 (Harvison Young): [40] The Supreme Court of Canada reviewed the law applicable to the scope of searches incident to arrest in the context of cell phones in R. v. Fearon, 2014 SCC 77, [2014] 3 S.C.R. 621. Cromwell J., writing for the majority, wrote of the need to recognize, on the one hand, Read more...

R v Balendra – 2019 ONCA 68 (Harvison Young): [40] The Supreme Court of Canada reviewed the law applicable to the scope of searches incident to arrest in the context of cell phones in R. v. Fearon, 2014 SCC 77, [2014] 3 S.C.R. 621. Cromwell J., writing for the majority, wrote of the need to recognize, on the one hand, Read more...

R v Wang – 2019-Feb-01 – Unreported, Crewe J Mr. Wang was driving westbound on Highway 401 sometime after 5:30 a.m. on September 9, 2016, and he attempted to exit the highway at Warden Avenue in east Toronto. Motorist John Tuset, having taken the same exit on his way to work, saw Mr. Wang’s vehicle speed past him at a Read more...