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R v Moran – 2019 ONCA 217 (Per Curiam): [21] In cases such as this involving fraud in connection with funds earmarked for social assistance for the disadvantaged, the predominant sentencing objectives are denunciation and deterrence. It is all the more so where the offender is a recidivist who within months of findings of guilt for cognate offences re-offends while Read more...

R v Hussein – 2019 ONCA 230 (Per Curiam): [1] Mr. Ali Abdul-Hussein was a material witness to a killing. After being subpoenaed to testify at the murder trial as a Crown witness, he fled Canada in a deliberate attempt to avoid giving evidence. Although Mr. Abdul-Hussein was unaware of it when he fled, the subpoena was issued improperly: the Read more...

R v Nurse – 2019 ONCA 260 (Trotter): [54] The first order of business is to determine whether Mr. Kumar’s gestures are capable of being characterized as a statement or utterance. While statements and utterances are usually verbal, consisting of the spoken word, conduct may also convey meaning. As David M. Paciocco and Lee Stuesser, The Law of Evidence, 7th Read more...

R v. CB, 2019 ONCA 380 (Watt): [63] To determine this ground of appeal requires consideration of what is involved in the process of authentication; how it may be established, especially with respect to the subject-matter in issue here; and the roles of the trier of law and the trier of fact in the authentication process. [64] The requirement of Read more...

R v. CB, 2019 ONCA 380 (Watt): [63] To determine this ground of appeal requires consideration of what is involved in the process of authentication; how it may be established, especially with respect to the subject-matter in issue here; and the roles of the trier of law and the trier of fact in the authentication process. [64] The requirement of Read more...