Spies Keep Judges In The Dark
- November 28, 2018
- Clayton Rice, Q.C.
On November 16, 2018, the Federal Court of Appeal released the unanimous opinion of a three member panel in X (Re), 2018 FCA 207. The exact dates of oral argument and the judgment are unknown because they are redacted from the…
The StatsCan Controversy
- November 16, 2018
- Clayton Rice, Q.C.
On October 26, 2018, Andrew Russell and David Akin of Global News broke the story that Statistics Canada planned to collect the banking data of half a million Canadians without their knowledge and consent. The data seizure would include bill…
Compelled Password Production
- October 30, 2018
- Clayton Rice, Q.C.
Can the state compel a person to provide the password for a locked device? A recent opinion of the Fourth District Court of Appeal in Florida indicates that the law in the United States and Canada could be moving in…
Spider-Man’s Cell Phone
- October 14, 2018
- Clayton Rice, Q.C.
“It was incredibly fast,” Cst Mike Laporte told jurors at the trial of Shawn Vassel for gunning down Husam Degheim in a movie theatre parking lot in Mississauga, Ontario. Cst Laporte was describing Vassel’s attempt to elude the police by…
Sentencing Dial-A-Dopers In Alberta
- September 28, 2018
- Clayton Rice, Q.C.
For over thirty-five years the guideline sentence in Alberta for drug trafficking has been three years imprisonment. Speaking for a unanimous panel of the Alberta Court of Appeal in R v Maskell, 1981 ABCA 50 Justice Arnold F. Moir held,…