This week’s top three summaries: R v Townsend, 2025 BCCA 459: #after the fact, R v ZML, 2025 ONCA 872: accused #fabrication, R v Meeko, 2025 NUCA 12: #bad character #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/alSnKH9TWG

This week’s top three summaries: R v Carignan, 2025 SCC 43: s.9 #arrest, R v Stuart, 2025 ABCA 404: #cross & s.276, R v Linklater, 2025 MBCA 104: #eye-witness ID #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/ECYVavaVqi

This week's top three summaries: R v McDonald, 2025 ONCA 807: Browne v Dunn, R v Brennan, 2025 ONSC 6116: s.8 #marijuana smell, R v MR, 2025 ONCA 789: #appeal bail #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/EyCh2joGeC

Here’s my post on cyber insider, Peter Williams, who pleaded guilty to selling trade secrets, stolen from a defence contractor, to a Russian broker for $US1.3 million in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 🇺🇸 | #cybersecurity #cybercrime

This week’s top three summaries: R v Demetroff, 2025 ABCA 373: #after the fact, R v BR, 2025 ABKB 659: s.8 school #principal, R v Robinson, 2025 ABCJ 196: #witnesses #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/DFJcCeJWGg

This week’s top three summaries: R v Bjil, 2025 SKCA 116: #technology, R v Lessard, 2025 ONCA 760: #NCRMD, R v Krelove, 2025 ONSC 6004: #domestic discharge #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/DFJcCeJWGg

This week’s top three summaries: R v Whitlock, 2025 ONSC 6006: #remand s.12, R v EJ, 2025 ONSC 6016: #self-defence, R v CB, 2025 ONSC 6004: cross-count #similar fact #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/csoDyst7jt

Here’s my post on the use of artificial intelligence by the legal profession and a sample of rulings by Canadian courts 🇨🇦 where lawyers were criticized for filings that contained cases conjured by hallucinating AI tools | #GenAI #Lawyers #LegalEthics

⚖️ The Defence Toolkit: 🧑‍⚖️ Mandatory Minimum Sentences — reasonably foreseeable scenarios. 📜 Sexual Assault — Mens Rea absent a mistake defence. 🔍 Rights — intoxicated and rude accused. Full post 👉 https://t.co/TmzqEPTeAb #CriminalLaw #CaseLaw #AppealLawyer #TheDefenceToolkit

Good opinion response to politicians' populist rage against most recently overturned mandatory minimum sentence. This is why #CharterRights are necessary to protect everyone from the political and even majority whims of the moment.

Criminal Defence bar concerned with government overreach in sweeping use of notwithstanding clause by @ABDanielleSmith and the @Alberta_UCP #Red4Ed

Criminal Defence bar speaking out against sweeping use of notwithstanding clause by @ABDanielleSmith and the @Alberta_UCP #Red4Ed

CDLA, CTLA, SADL, RDCDLA joint statement on @Alberta_UCP and premier @ABDanielleSmith's sweeping use of the Notwithstanding Clause. #ableg #Constitution #Red4Ed

⚖️ New on The Defence Toolkit: 🧑‍⚖️ Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act — immunity from arrest 📜 Fresh Evidence after guilty plea — consent capacity revisited 🔍 Expert evidence — trial errors corrected 👉 https://t.co/4wPAZA9Kvu #CriminalLaw #CaseLaw #TheDefenceToolkit

“Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist” @cbussewitz 👉🏻 @AP | #courts #lawyers #AI https://t.co/cu5N6WK0V0

Here’s my post on R. v. Liu where the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal 🇨🇦 held that the trial judge erred in admitting the expert opinion of a drug expert resulting in a miscarriage of justice and ordered a new trial | #FairTrials #ExpertEvidence #DrugLaw

This week’s top three summaries: R v Matthews, 2025 ABKB 597: #expert bias, R v RL, 2025 ONCA 691: #acquittal appeal, R v Wilson, 2025 ABCA 337: #contempt #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/NqxoY1Y2rE

Here’s my post on the indictment charging former FBI Director James Comey with making false statements to the U.S. Congress 🇺🇸 which has been widely condemned as a product of a weaponized justice department | #JamesComey #justice

This week’s top three summaries: R v BN, 2025 ABKB 535: #ineffective lawyer, R v Shah, 2025 ABKB 535: s.8 #informant, R v Mohamed Mussa, 2025 ABKB 543: #circumstantial ID Shoutout to @Chagg164 for the win in R v Shah! #defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw https://t.co/lLY7q2XLbd

This week’s top three summaries: R v IMB, 2025 ONCA 678: #cross & #demeanour, R v Daignault, 2025 ABCA 328: #cross & Vetrovec, R v Penner, 2025 YKCA 14: 271 #relating to evidence #defencetoolkit #legal #CriminalLaw https://t.co/WdULPQQHsf