Wiretap Reports: Canada and the United States

  • July 6, 2015
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

In my post titled The Right to Notification dated August 2, 2014, I discussed s. 196 of the Criminal Code which contains the post facto transparency rule that a person who was the subject of a wiretap interception must be given…

Intercepts by GCHQ Violated Privacy Rights

  • June 28, 2015
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

On June 22, 2015, the British government’s intelligence monitoring agency released its ruling that the interception of private communications of two international human rights groups by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was illegal and in breach of Article 8 of…

What Is a Fair Trial?

  • June 22, 2015
  • Clayton Rice, K.C.

On February 22, 1632, a book was delivered to Ferdinando II de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, titled Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Ferdinando was a patron of its author Galileo Galilei, known mononymously as Galileo, an Italian…

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…

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