Cases Flashcards
(28 cards)
R vs. Ruzic
Smuggled heroin
Duress: If you don’t commit a crime, you’ll die
R vs. Williams Mullin Johnson
Man who was incompetent got hundreds of people falsely accused
R vs. Toronto
Canada’s 9/11
Russel Williams
Canadian Air Force man who raped and murdered 2 women, and stole women’s underwear 82 times
R vs. Ssenyonga
Gave AIDS to 3 girls
R vs. Daviault
Used being drunk as an excuse for sexually assaulting a 65-year-old wheelchair bound woman. Was acquitted of his crimes
R vs. Golden
Strip searches in public
R vs. India Air
Sikh terrorists in Canada
R vs. Ewanchuk
No such thing as implied consent. Paid woman $100 to keep quiet.
Canada Attorney General vs. Bredford
Prostitutes case (was unconstitutional infringement on the women’s rights)
R vs. Tessling
Cops can do fly-overs and scan your house without a search warrant
Chaoulli vs. Quebec
You can have private health care centres
R vs. Lavallee
Battered Woman Syndrome
R vs. Sharpe
Child porn fantasy writings
R vs. Pickton
Murderer who fed his victims to his pigs
R vs. Big M Drug Mart
Sunday shopping (unconstitutionally against people’s rights)
R vs. Keegstra
Hate speech including Holocaust deniers
USA vs. Burns
(Canada forced our values on the USA because they couldn’t execute the extradited people to the USA) For killing parents for insurance policy
Dobson vs. Dobson
Father-in-law sues mother (on behalf of child) who got in car accident, which gave her son cerebral palsy
Pettkus vs. Bekker
Get a prenup. A couple who owned a bee company. Do common-law partners have claim to stuff? (Yes)
David Thompson vs. Lauren Ludwick
You can challenge a prenup. She married him wealthy and was pregnant and they got a divorce and she gets over $400,000 a month.
Jeffery Baldwin
Act of omission (neglect)
R vs. Tabaco
Reasonable limits clause in the constitution
R vs. Zundel
Neo-nazi sent to Germany
