The Supreme Court of Canada will consider an appeal which looks at the issue of whether a sexual assault complainant may testify in Court while wearing a niqab for religious reasons. The case, on appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal, arose when one of the defendants in a sexual assault case claimed that his [...]
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November 18, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Supreme Court of Canada last week released an important decision regarding informer privilege. The Court ruled that the informer privilege cannot be extended to prevent the defence, or agent, from conducting a lawful investigation into the identity of the informer — this was the position taken by the CCLA in our intervention in this [...] This op-ed was originally published by Post Media News on October 21, 2011 The numbers are stark. Approximately a quarter of all individuals admitted to federal prisons show signs of mental health illness – without counting those who have substance abuse problems – and one in five are prescribed psychiatric medication. Internal Correctional Service Canada (CSC) documents [...] Over a decade ago, the Supreme Court recognized that widespread racism against Aboriginal people within Canada had “translated into systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system,” with the result that Aboriginal Canadians were “drastic[ally] overrepresent[ed] … within both the Canadian prison population and the criminal justice system.” |
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