Sign in
Canada Source-linked decisions Coverage checked

Canada Case Law

Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.

Courts on this page
2 court collections
Last checked

Canada decisions

Decisions matching the current search

Clear filters
Tort 2025 BCSC 612

D.W.P. v. Owner

The court held Driver liable in negligence and battery after a motorcycle collision during a psychotic episode, and found Owner vicariously liable under s. 86.

  • Insanity/mental illness as defence in tort
  • Admissibility and weight of psychiatric expert evidence
  • Causation
  • Assessment of damages (non-pecuniary, past and future earning capacity, future care)
  • Publication ban and anonymization
  • Mental-illness-defence-in-tort
Read case analysis
Criminal law 2022 NSSC 81

R. v. N.K.

Applying a contextual totality-of-the-circumstances analysis, the judge found most pre-May 9, 2019 communications did not contain personal information in which the complainant had a reasonable expectation of privacy (they were direct communications to the accused, often one-sided or sent when the accused had repudiated contact, and contained no sexual content), and therefore are not "records" under s.278.1 and are admissible without further s.278.92 application; however Tabs 1, 11 and 30 were found to give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy and are presumptively inadmissible and subj…

  • Section 278.92 production procedure
  • Definition of "record" under s.278.1
  • Reasonable expectation of privacy in electronic communications
  • Publication ban and anonymization
Read case analysis

About this LexChat collection

Canada decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.