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Family law 2024 BCSC 1386

P.T. v. K.T.

The court varied support after finding the children had long lived primarily with K.T., contrary to the prior parenting assumption, and ordered updated child and spousal support.

  • Variation of support order
  • Material change in circumstances
  • Retroactive variation
  • Section 7 expenses
  • Document disclosure
  • Variation-of-support-order
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Family law 2023 BCSC 1217

J.N.G. v. S.C.M.

En cámara pública, la Corte trató solicitudes provisionales en un caso de familia: resolvió sobre guardería, documentos de identidad del menor, divulgación y costas.

  • Parenting time
  • Child care placement
  • Document disclosure
  • Identification documents
  • Parenting coordinator
  • Financial disclosure
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Criminal law 2011 NSPC 86

R. v. Cater

The application for additional disclosure was dismissed because the material sought was largely irrelevant to the authorization and the charges or would risk disclosure of confidential informant identities protected by absolute informer privilege; no evidentiary basis was shown for a Charter breach or the grant of leave to cross-examine the affiant under Garofoli, and a stay was unjustified.

  • Stinchcombe disclosure
  • Garofoli review
  • Informer privilege
  • Innocence-at-stake exception
  • Abuse of process
  • Stay of proceedings
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Criminal law 2005 NSCA 130

R. v. Hill

The Court dismissed the appeal because, on the totality of the evidence (the accused's wife's testimony, intercepted telephone calls, the recordings made by the paid informant while together with the accused, and corroborating surveillance notes), a properly instructed trier of fact could reasonably convict Hill as a party under s.21 of the Criminal Code; the Crown had provided full disclosure (the full recordings), the contested snippets did not meet the Palmer threshold for fresh evidence and would not have affected the outcome, and the trial judge's reasons, though brief, were sufficient a…

  • Trafficking (controlled drugs and substances act s.5)
  • Party liability (criminal code s.21)
  • Appellate unreasonableness review (criminal code s.686)
  • Informant credibility and paid informants
  • Fresh evidence (palmer test)
  • Disclosure obligations
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