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Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff It was a court fight that lasted a generation. The lawsuit went on so long that the small businessman who initiated it tried to make legal [...]

Fighting a lawsuit is a slow, complicated, costly process, and many jurists say the system is broken. The Globe surveyed Canada’s legal world to find out what needs to change, It was a court fight that lasted a generation. The lawsuit went on so long that the small businessman who initiated it tried to make legal history by demanding compensation [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff Ontario's publicly funded health insurance plan must pay for a special procedure in Texas for a non-binary person seeking gender-affirming care, the province's Divisional Court has [...]

George Lovie was recently granted full parole after being convicted of a double murder in 1991. The Globe and Mail’s justice writer Sean Fine explains the details of the case, For the best listening experience and to never miss an episode, subscribe to The Decibel on your favourite podcast app or platform: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff A Canadian-born Muslim whose experiences of discrimination at the U.S. border moved him to take up a law career is poised to become the first judge [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff A judge has told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet that they have violated their constitutional duty to appoint judges, and need to fill the [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE, KRISTY KIRKUP TORONTO, OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court has upheld a federal law affirming that Indigenous peoples have a right to selfgovernment under Canada's Constitution, which includes [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE, TOM CARDOSO TORONTO -- Cabinet secrecy is vital to democracy, and trumps the public's right to obtain documents under freedom of information laws, the Supreme Court of [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff Serious injury or death during rough sex negates any possibility of consent, Alberta's top court has ruled in upholding a manslaughter conviction in one of Canada's [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff There was just one Peter Russell. It only seemed there was an entire chain of them down through the years. The one who established whole new [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the acquittal of a male soldier who recorded video as he asked for consent from a female soldier and [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff A Federal Court judge has concluded that a Chinese engineering student is a potential spy and cannot enter Canada in a ruling that broadens the definition [...]

Sebastien Lai, son of the Hong Kong publisher, calls for former chief justice to reconsider her role in the court system as China cracks down on dissent, Updated: December 15, 2023 When pro-democracy newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai goes to trial in Hong Kong on Monday facing national-security charges, he will be appearing in a court system that [...]

The question at the heart of the case is how the absolute confidentiality granted to police informants can co-exist with the principle of open courts, Canadians need to know that trials are not being held in secret, Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner said during a hearing Tuesday on a Quebec criminal proceeding that was [...]

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday that the government of the Northwest Territories acted unreasonably in rejecting the claims of five parents by failing to consider ‘Charter values’, The https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/supreme-court-of-canada-scc/ has strengthened access to French-language schools outside Quebec in a decision that opens the door to non-francophones who have special claims to attend. The case before the Supreme [...]

Court to hear case that will raise the question of whether governments can be sued for financial damages if it passes laws that are an abuse of power, The federal government will ask the Supreme Court on Thursday for complete protection from lawsuits over unconstitutional legislation. The request for absolute immunity will be made in a case involving [...]

Provincial court judge’s conduct, which legal scholars say has no recent precedent, is expected to be reviewed by a disciplinary body, Updated: December 05, 2023 Nova Scotia’s top court has thrown out the convictions of an accused child abuser after a lower-court judge tried to block it from hearing a segment [...]

The ruling could make it easier for prosecutors to use evidence illegally obtained by police, The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that when a minor violation of a suspect’s constitutional rights leads to several subsequent violations, the sequence should be treated as minor by [...]

Not a single self-represented litigant has been granted a hearing before the SCC since 2017, according to new statistics, Updated: January 03, 2024 Almost 700 self-represented litigants have asked the Supreme Court of Canada to hear their appeals in the past six years – and not a single one [...]

Colleagues and students say they will participate in an hour-long walkout from class on Tuesday afternoon in protest of the suspensions, A York University sociology professor who studies protests and at least two other employees of the school have been placed on leave from their jobs after they were charged in [...]

Lesley J. Wood, an associate professor, was charged this week with mischief over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence by Toronto Police, A York University professor who wrote an award-winning book on the use of direct action in protest movements is https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-toronto-police-charge-11-in-indigo-store-vandalism-report-spike-in/ in the defacing of a bookstore with red paint and [...]

Toronto police say they have seen 78 total hate incidents between Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and Nov. 20, double the 37 reported in the same period last year, Toronto police have laid mischief charges against 11 people they say were motivated by hate when an https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-antisemitism-a-growing-concern-after-spike-in-hate-related-incidents/ with red paint and fake posters accused the chain’s Jewish founder of [...]

The ruling was the second major court decision in five weeks that determined federal environmental policy to be unconstitutional, A judge has ruled a federal decision labelling plastics as toxic to be unreasonable and unconstitutional, throwing Ottawa’s scheduled ban on the sale of single-use plastics such as checkout bags [...]

The statement, posted on social media, was endorsed by a group of Canadian lawyers and former judges, led by lawyer Mark Sandler of Toronto, who is Jewish, Inspired by a group of Muslim and Jewish law students who drafted a statement of mutual support at the University of Ottawa, nearly 1,000 members of the legal community, including [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- The death of a pedestrian on a road construction site has led to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling with potentially wide consequences, for [...]

Newfoundland and Labrador appeal court tosses the acquittal of a man who let his four dogs starve nearly to death and orders a new trial, Prosecuting animal cruelty could become easier after an appeal court in Newfoundland and Labrador threw out the acquittal of a man who let his four beagles starve nearly to death. [...]

Broken-promise case brought by 21 First Nations over compensation for lands ceded in 1850 treaty is among the most important reconciliation matters heard by the court in recent years, The Supreme Court of Canada is being asked to order financial redress worth as much as $126-billion to First Nations in Northern Ontario over broken treaty promises more than a [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down a one-year mandatory minimum penalty for adults who use the internet to lure children into sexual [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- A law allowing the federal government to review energy, mining and industrial projects to protect Indigenous peoples and the environment is an unconstitutional overreach [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- Publication bans that block news media from reporting on pretrial hearings until a jury retires, such as the one in the cyberbullying case of [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff A dealer in drugs and guns sentenced to 20 years after the country's largest seizure of the deadly drug carfentanil has been granted bail by a [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff In a field made thin by a shortage of bilingual candidates, francophone judges from Alberta and Manitoba have emerged as leading contenders to fill a seat [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff The case of a Nunavut man with a dozen convictions for beating up his intimate partners is raising questions about how federal authorities address violence against [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff Federally appointed judges investigated for misconduct have lost their right to go to court to challenge the disciplinary proceedings, a move opposed by the legal community [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- Fewer than a dozen strong candidates to succeed Russell Brown on the Supreme Court of Canada are available to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau because [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff Legal observers say the Canadian Judicial Council is harming the public's trust in judges by its secrecy and should release its report ordering a public inquiry [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a claim that the Safe Third Country Agreement allowing refugee claimants to be turned back to the United States [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- A justice of the peace kicked out of her courtroom for the past three years after she wrote a newspaper article calling bail hearings [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff Justice Russell Brown of Alberta was the most powerful conservative voice on the Supreme Court of Canada and, to some, the strongest such judge in 40 [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff Russell Brown has resigned from the Supreme Court of Canada, choosing to step down rather than face a public hearing over allegations he harassed women in [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- Alberta's top court has cut the prison term of an Indigenous man who choked a woman nearly to death in front of two of [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff A judge had no authority to order the federal government to try to repatriate four men being held in Syrian prison camps on suspicion of being [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff Six of the 17 committees that screen candidates for federally appointed courts across Canada have stopped operating, even as the number of vacant jobs for judges [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff TORONTO -- SNC-Lavalin can't be sued for keeping to itself a critical phone call on the fate of a bribery prosecution against it, Ontario's top court [...]

Byline: SEAN FINE; Staff JUSTICE WRITER -- Close to 9 per cent of full-time judge positions on federally appointed courts across the country are vacant, leading to delayed prosecutions and [...]