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This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada from the formation of the Court in 1875 to the retirement of Gérald Fauteux in 1973. Note that the Privy Council heard appeals for criminal cases until 1933 and for civil cases until 1949. Also between 1888 and 1926, no criminal appeals were allowed to the ...
The case has also been featured on CBS, Discovery Plus, and various podcasts. [4] Throughout recent years preceding Iwaasa's disappearance, other men had also gone missing in the same region of British Columbia, with two of whom having been found deceased with the RCMP linking "criminal behaviour" with their deaths.
The Chinese ambassador to Canada announced that Canada's arrest of Meng was a blatant violation of human rights, and China expressed anger and demanded that Canada release Meng immediately. [19] According to information at a bail hearing on December 7, the United States had accused Meng of fraud and violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran . [ 20 ]
R v Parks, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 871 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the criminal automatism defence. [2] On an early morning on May 24, 1987, Kenneth Parks drove 20 kilometres from Pickering, Ontario, to the house of his in-laws in Scarborough, Ontario. He entered their house with a key they had previously given him and used a tire ...
Karla Leanne Homolka (born May 4, 1970), also known as Karla Leanne Teale, [2] [3] Leanne Teale [4] and Leanne Bordelais, [5] is a Canadian serial killer who acted as an accomplice to her husband, Paul Bernardo, taking active part in the rapes and murders of at least three minors in Ontario – including her own sister, Tammy Homolka – between 1990 and 1992.
Jennifer Pan's mother, Bich Ha Pan (pronounced "Bick"), [note 2] and father, Huei Hann Pan, [note 3] were ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam to Canada. [2] Hann was born and educated in Vietnam, moving to Canada in 1979 as a refugee. Bich also came to Canada as a refugee. The couple were married in Toronto and lived in Scarborough. Jennifer ...
R v Vaillancourt, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 636, is a landmark case from the Supreme Court of Canada on the constitutionality of the Criminal Code concept of "constructive murder". ". The Court raised the possibility that crimes with significant "stigma" attached, such as murder, require proof of the mens rea element of subjective foresight of death, but declined to decide on that b
The following is a list of unsolved murders in Canada. Hundreds of homicides occur across Canada each year, many of which end up as cold cases . [ 1 ] In 2021, the country's intentional homicide rate stood at around 2.06 per 100,000 individuals, [ 2 ] increasing for the third consecutive year. [ 3 ]