Sentences with phrase «context of criminal trials»

Canadian appellate courts usually deal with harmless error (usually an evidentiary ruling by a trial judge that, while mistaken, does not meet the standard of reversible error on appeal, or to warrant a new trial) in the context of criminal trials.

Without being exhaustive, the danger to the administration of justice is likely to be at its most acute in the context of criminal trials e.g., where witnesses who are out of court may be informed of what has already happened in court and so coached or briefed before they then give evidence, or where information posted on, for instance, Twitter about inadmissible evidence may influence members of a jury.

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2012 Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada by R. Blake Brown Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context edited by Eric Tucker, James Muir & Bruce Ziff \ Broken Grounds: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870 - 1905 by Shelley Gavigan The African - Canadians Legal Odyssey: Selected Essays edited by Barrington Walker

He discussed the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in Head v. the Queen, [1986] 2 S.C.R. 684 and R.v. Burke (2002), 164 C.C.C. (3d) 385, which both involved the application of the doctrine in the context of criminal jury trials.

«Indeed, many of the advantages of public criminal trials are equally applicable in the civil trial context....

Criminal Law: I.D; Photographs; Confessions R. v. Araya, 2015 SCC 11 (35669) Trial judge's instructions here were «adequate», and though not perfectly phrased, the totality of the instructions, viewed in the context of the case as a whole, adequately guarded against the possibility of jurors using the photographs for «impermissible reasoning».

«This final report is a precursor to what is hoped will be new criminal rules dealing with challenge for cause procedures in the context of criminal jury trials.

In terms of substantive issues, the Court needed to determine the appropriate implementation and use of the new war crime legislation, particularly how a trial judge must instruct himself or a jury on the correct legal requirements of such a charge in the context of criminal law principles.

However, courts have noted that in a criminal context, rules of privilege may be relaxed after a trial as the client no longer has an interest in preserving the confidentiality of the information.