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The court ruled on admissibility of the accused’s statements and related text messages in a judge-alone murder trial, admitting some statements and excluding others.
The court partly granted a Crown voir dire application, admitting selected statements and texts as party admissions or for limited narrative purposes, while excluding the rest as more prejudicial than probative.
The Federal Court allowed judicial review of an Immigration Division deportation order, finding the reasons unreasonable because they did not explain how the applicant’s work significantly aided the CSD’s criminal purpose.
The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a work permit refusal, holding the visa officer’s findings on marriage genuineness and misrepresentation were reasonable.
The court admitted a deceased witness’s ante mortem statements and a related text message, largely for narrative and state-of-mind purposes, and two statements for their truth.
On sentencing voir dire, the court refused the Crown's proposed crime-trend and community-response evidence, finding it unreliable and unnecessary for general deterrence.
The court dismissed a Crown application to admit videotaped photopack identification evidence, finding no positive prior identification and serious reliability concerns.
Voir dire on admissibility of Hardial Singh Johal’s Pocket Pal diary under the principled hearsay exception; the court found authorship, necessity, and threshold reliability.
Pre-trial voir dire on Brown’s post-offence conduct. The court admitted most of the Crown’s evidence as potentially probative of flight and guilt, but excluded Brown’s call to Roy.
On a voir dire, the court held that I.C.’s evidence about the accused using knives was inadmissible similar fact evidence because its reliability was not established.
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