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

R. v. WHEELER, 2025 ONCA 761, NOVEMBER 10, 2025.

FACTS:  The accused was convicted of the offence of criminal negligence causing death. The charge arose out of the accused having towed another person on an inoperable all-terrain vehicle that

OFFENCES-SEXUAL ASSAULT-CONSENT

R. v. RIOUX, 2025 SCC 34, NOVEMBER 7, 2025.  FACTS:  The accused was acquitted of the offence of sexual assault.  A majority of the Quebec Court of Appeal set aside

OFFENCES-SEXUAL ASSAULT-VITIATION OF CONSENT

BVA, R. v [2025] EWCA CRIM 1359, OCTOBER 29, 2025. FACTS: The accused was convicted of the offence of sexual assault contrary to section 3(1) the Sexual Offences Act 2003.