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R. v. R.B.-C.

The Supreme Court held that post-verdict sentencing delay is assessed under a “markedly longer” test, not a fixed ceiling, and upheld a sentence reduction remedy.

  • Charter s. 11(b) reasonable time
  • Post-verdict sentencing delay
  • Remedy for constitutional breach
  • Sentencing delay
  • Charter-s-11b-reasonable-time
  • Post-verdict-sentencing-delay
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Criminal law

R. v. Berg

A sexual assault conviction was upheld. The Court said R. v. J.J.R.D. is about appellate review of reasons, not a trial formula for W. (D.) analysis.

  • Assessment of credibility
  • Consent in sexual assault
  • W. (d.) analysis
  • Appellate review of sufficiency of reasons
  • Criminal-law
  • Evidence
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Constitutional law

R. v. Jacques-Taylor

The Supreme Court held that delay caused by a co-accused’s counsel in a joint trial can be a discrete exceptional circumstance under s. 11(b), so the stay was set aside.

  • Charter right to be tried within reasonable time
  • Jordan framework
  • Exceptional circumstances
  • Joint trials
  • Defence delay
  • Case management
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Constitutional law

R. v. Vrbanic

The Supreme Court allowed the Crown’s appeal, set aside a stay under s. 11(b) of the Charter, and held the project prosecution was particularly complex.

  • Charter right to be tried within a reasonable time
  • S. 11(b) delay
  • Jordan framework
  • Case complexity exception
  • Stay of proceedings
  • Charter-right-to-trial-within-reasonable-time
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Criminal law

R. v. Saddleback

The Supreme Court dismissed the Crown’s appeal in a second-degree murder case, holding the trial judge relied on an out-of-court statement as hearsay and that no curative proviso applied.

  • Hearsay
  • Sufficiency of reasons
  • Material misapprehension of evidence
  • Curative proviso
  • Second degree murder
  • Sufficiency-of-reasons
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Criminal law

R. v. Whitehawk

The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the appeal in R. v. Whitehawk, agreeing substantially with the majority reasons of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.

  • Appeal
  • Dismissal of appeal
  • Criminal-law
  • Dismissal-of-appeal
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Criminal law

R. v. Burke-Whittaker

The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the respondent’s motion to adduce new evidence and dismissed the appeal. Reasons were to follow.

  • Motion to adduce new evidence
  • Appeal dismissal
  • Criminal-law
  • Appellate-practice
  • New-evidence
  • Appeal-dismissed
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Criminal law 2026 ONCA 349

R. v. Khodayar

The Court of Appeal for Ontario dismissed the appeal in R. v. Khodayar, holding that Schertzer governed and that s. 13 did not protect the transcripts.

  • Section 13 canadian charter - testimonial self-incrimination
  • Obstruction of justice (criminal code s.139(2))
  • Admissibility of prior testimony
  • Stare decisis (vertical vs horizontal)
  • Section-13-charter
  • Obstruction-of-justice
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Criminal law 2026 ONCA 346

R. v. M.T.

On sentence appeal in a sexual interference case, the Court upheld the 17-month custodial term but varied an overbroad s. 161(1) order.

  • Sentencing principles
  • Restraint for youthful offenders
  • Gladue factors
  • Geographic and non-contact orders
  • Appellate review of sentence
  • Sentencing
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Criminal law 2026 ONCA 350

R. v. Stewart

The Ontario Court of Appeal granted leave but dismissed Jamel Stewart’s sentence appeal, upholding a 30-month sentence for firearms offences.

  • Unauthorized possession of a non-restricted firearm (s.92(1) cc)
  • Failure to comply with release order (s.145(5)(a) cc)
  • Downes credit for bail conditions
  • Morris jurisprudence on anti-black systemic racism in sentencing
  • Appellate intervention in sentencing
  • Nexus requirement between background and offending
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