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Immigration-law 2026 FC 617

Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)

The Federal Court struck CILA’s judicial review application, holding it did not disclose a reviewable matter under s. 18.1 and that public interest standing was unavailable.

  • Right-to-counsel
  • Public-interest-standing
  • Reviewability-of-administrative-conduct
  • Scope-of-federal-courts-act-ss.18-and-18.1
  • Rule-221/rule-302-motions-to-strike
  • Independent-constitutional-challenges
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Criminal-law 2026 ONCA 329

R. v. I.L.

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the conviction appeal, granted leave to appeal sentence, and dismissed the sentence appeal in a criminal case involving Crown misconduct and CSAEM issues.

  • Stay-of-proceedings
  • S.7-charter-breach
  • S.10(b)-right-to-counsel
  • Prior-inconsistent-statement
  • Private-use-exemption-(csaem)
  • Jury-instructions
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Immigration-law 2026 FC 514

Cortes Paez v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness)

Judicial review of a Federal Court exclusion order was dismissed after the Court found the officer reasonably applied the Safe Third Country framework and procedural fairness was met.

  • Exclusion-order
  • Inadmissibility
  • Safe-third-country-agreement
  • Additional-protocol
  • 14-day-rule
  • Procedural-fairness
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Criminal-law 2026 ONCA 205

R. v. Hamilton

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Vivian Hamilton’s conviction appeal, rejected Charter and verdict challenges, and dismissed the sentence appeal after granting leave.

  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • S.10(b)-right-to-counsel
  • S.24(2)-exclusion-of-evidence
  • Directed-verdict
  • Appellate-review-and-standard-of-review
  • Drug-trafficking
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Criminal-law 2026 ONCA 12

R. v. Sutherland

The Ontario Court of Appeal upheld Shamaul Sutherland’s convictions and six-year sentence for cocaine and fentanyl trafficking, rejecting Charter and sentencing arguments.

  • Search-and-seizure
  • Arbitrary-detention
  • Right-to-counsel-(s.10(b))
  • Exclusion-of-evidence-(s.24(2))
  • Trafficking-sentencing
  • Right-to-counsel
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2553

R. v. Majcher

The court held that William Robert Majcher’s July 18 and 19, 2023 post-arrest statements were voluntary and admissible, rejecting the claim of an evidentiary gap.

  • Voluntariness-of-statements
  • Police-conduct
  • Right-to-counsel
  • Search-incident-to-arrest
  • Promises-and-threats
  • Admissibility-of-evidence
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Criminal-law 2025 ONCA 890

R. v. Mare

Ont. C.A. dismisses an appeal from drug convictions, upholding the trial judge’s s. 24(2) ruling after a serious but unintentional s. 10(b) breach.

  • Section-8-charter-(search-and-seizure)
  • Section-10(b)-charter-(right-to-counsel)
  • Section-24(2)-charter-(exclusion-of-evidence)
  • Search-warrant
  • Strip-search
  • Police-conduct
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Criminal-law 2025 ONCA 882

R. v. Abdalla

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Mohamed Abdalla’s appeal, upholding the trial judge’s findings that a safety search incident to detention was reasonable and that there was no s. 10(b) breach.

  • Section-8-charter-(search-and-seizure)
  • Section-9-charter-(detention)
  • Section-10(b)-charter-(right-to-counsel)
  • Search-incident-to-detention
  • Admissibility-of-evidence
  • Fresh-evidence
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2473

R. v. Garkouth, Ibrahim Hussein, and Obatusa

The court held that Ramadhan Ibrahim Hussein’s police statement was voluntary and admissible after a contextual voir dire analysis of the interview.

  • Voluntariness-of-statements
  • Confessions-rule
  • Right-to-counsel-(s.10(b))
  • Police-inducement-and-oppression
  • Operating-mind
  • Police-trickery
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2392

R. v. Cluett

The Court dismissed a Charter voir dire in a border-search case, finding no unconstitutional detention and no breaches of ss. 8, 9 or 10.

  • Search-and-seizure
  • Detention
  • Right-to-counsel-(s.10)
  • Strip-search-(s.98-customs-act)
  • Customs-act-powers-(s.99)
  • Reasonable-suspicion-vs-routine-screening
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