Supreme Court Rules Medical Marihuana Law Is Arbitrary
- June 16, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On June 11, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada released its unanimous opinion in R. v. Smith, 2015 SCC 34 that the law prohibiting medical access to marihuana other than dried marihuana is unconstitutional. In a per curiam ruling, the court held that…
The Anderson Report
- June 14, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
In my post titled Anti-Terrorism Law Passed by Canada’s Senate dated June 10, 2015, I made this point. While Parliament flailed ahead with passing Bill C-51 there has been a developing claw back of state surveillance powers in the United…
Anti-Terrorism Law Passed by Canada’s Senate
- June 10, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On May 25, 2015, criticism of Bill C-51, the Conservative government’s reckless Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, went up a notch when the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the world’s largest security oriented intergovernmental organization based in Vienna, released its…
Judge’s Conduct Violated Right to Fair Trial
- June 6, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On January 17, 2012, Kimani Crawford was hanging out with a friend when they met up with Kevin Anderson. Anderson robbed a teenager of money which they used to buy liquor. They drank until four o’clock in the morning when…
What is cyberlaw?
- June 2, 2015
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
No one knows. Not that the question hasn’t been asked. But, rather, because the domain of cyberlaw, or cybersecurity law, is one where the parameters have not been defined. Recent hacking attacks against Sony Pictures, Target and Anthem have heightened…