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Reasonable Suspicion Required: The SCC’s Approach to Entrapment in R v Ahmad

Reasonable Suspicion Required: The SCC’s Approach to Entrapment in R v Ahmad

On May 29, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) released its much-anticipated decision dealing with the law of entrapment in the cases of R v Ahmad and R v Williams heard together last fall. The majority ruling provides some clarity over how the entrapment framework is to be applied in  a police drug investigation.  […]

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The National Sex Offender Registry: Existing Rules and New Developments

Since 2004, the Government of Canada has maintained a National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) containing detailed personal information about individuals convicted of designated sexual offences. Conviction for most of these offences triggers a mandatory order to report regularly to the registry. Recently, the Government of Canada proposed changes to strengthen the National Sex Offender Registry, […]

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