Keeping Up Is Hard to Do:
A Trial Judge’s Reading Blog

OFFENCES-FLIGHT FROM THE POLICE

R. v. VERNAZA-VINCES, 2025 ONCJ 257, MAY 12, 2025. FACTS:  The accused was charged with the offence of flight from the police, contrary to section 320.17 of the Criminal Code.  At the end

POLICE-REASONABLE USE OF FORCE

In Barnes v. Felix, 2025 No. 23–1239 (USSC), May 15, 2025, the United States Supreme Court considered the issue of whether, in assessing the reasonableness of the use of deadly

EVIDENCE-DISTRESS AT TIME OF COMPLAINT

The King v Ryan Churchill (a pseudonym) [2025] HCA 11, April 2, 2025, at paragraphs 3 and 4: In a trial of a sexual offence in Victoria, evidence that a