This edition features the full text of and annotations to the new Criminal Appeal Rules, as amended in March 2022.
Cases of the past year featured in this edition include the following:
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Manitoba – When a publication ban / sealing order can be varied
- El Sayeed v. Canada (Minister of Justice and Solicitor General) – Availability of habeas corpus
- Pichette (Re) – Jurisdiction to appeal finding that unfit to stand trial made by the Ontario Review Board
- R. v. Billiard – Order of costs against Crown set aside
- R. v. Biya – Partial forfeiture of bail ordered
- R. v. Cowan – Proper scope of the Criminal Code’s subs. 686(8)
- R. v. Doering – Principles governing intervention in a criminal appeal
- R. v. Esseghaier – Considerations regarding capacity to abandon an appeal
- R. v. J.M. – Reviewability of Chambers Judge’s decision refusing to direct appointment of state-funded counsel
- R. v. Latimer – Ability of case management judge in Superior Court to direct disclosure guidelines
- R. v. M.N. – The applicable disclosure regime beyond the scope of certiorari
- R. v. S.T. – Acceptability of an out-of-province surety
- R. v. Samaniego – Trial management decisions cannot supercede rules of evidence