By Jordan Gold|2022-02-07T08:15:29-05:00January 31st, 2022|
Ontario University Discipline Complaints relating to Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Consent How are allegations of sexual violence dealt with on college and university campuses in Ontario? Every university and college in Ontario has [...]
By Jordan Gold|2021-05-26T14:46:47-04:00May 26th, 2021|
R. v. G.F.: Consent to Sexual Activity, and the Capacity to Consent In R. v. G.F., 2021 SCC 20, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) has considered and ruled upon the relationship between [...]
By Jordan Gold|2020-06-11T00:29:36-04:00June 11th, 2020|
The Defence of Extreme Intoxication, Simplified. The Case of Sullivan The Ontario Court of Appeal recently struck down a law that prohibited an extreme self-intoxication defence for certain criminal offences. The decision appears [...]
By Jordan Gold|2020-06-05T19:38:28-04:00June 5th, 2020|
R. v. Sullivan: The End of s. 33.1 in Ontario A Criminal Code provision that has been on the books for 25 years is unconstitutional. The Ontario Court of Appeal this week released [...]
By Jordan Gold|2020-06-02T20:27:56-04:00June 2nd, 2020|
What it Costs to Breathe: The Death of George Floyd and Lessons on Police Accountability On Monday, May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, [...]
By Jordan Gold|2020-05-01T21:52:53-04:00May 1st, 2020|
The Harms of "Reverse Disclosure" in Sexual Assault Trials This year Parliament passed Bill C-51. Among other things, the new law changed many rules of evidence with respect to Sexual Assault trials in Canada. [...]
