Official Twitter Account of the Calgary Criminal Defence Lawyers Association - retweets don’t necessarily mean endorsement.
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Our 2025 Defence Lawyer of the Year was Rebecca Snukal K.C. Seen here with our president, @KelseySitar who handed out the award.
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This week’s top three summaries: R v Townsend, 2025 BCCA 459: #after the fact, R v ZML, 2025 ONCA 872: accused #fabrication, R v Meeko, 2025 NUCA 12: #bad character
#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw
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This week’s top three summaries: R v Carignan, 2025 SCC 43: s.9 #arrest, R v Stuart, 2025 ABCA 404: #cross & s.276, R v Linklater, 2025 MBCA 104: #eye-witness ID
#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw
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This week's top three summaries: R v McDonald, 2025 ONCA 807: Browne v Dunn, R v Brennan, 2025 ONSC 6116: s.8 #marijuana smell, R v MR, 2025 ONCA 789: #appeal bail
#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw
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Here’s my post on cyber insider, Peter Williams, who pleaded guilty to selling trade secrets, stolen from a defence contractor, to a Russian broker for $US1.3 million in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 🇺🇸 | #cybersecurity #cybercrime claytonrice.com/cyber-broker…
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This week’s top three summaries: R v Demetroff, 2025 ABCA 373: #after the fact, R v BR, 2025 ABKB 659: s.8 school #principal, R v Robinson, 2025 ABCJ 196: #witnesses
#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw
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This week’s top three summaries: R v Bjil, 2025 SKCA 116: #technology, R v Lessard, 2025 ONCA 760: #NCRMD, R v Krelove, 2025 ONSC 6004: #domestic discharge
#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw
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This week’s top three summaries: R v Whitlock, 2025 ONSC 6006: #remand s.12, R v EJ, 2025 ONSC 6016: #self-defence, R v CB, 2025 ONSC 6004: cross-count #similar fact
#defencetoolkit #legal #criminallaw
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Here’s my post on the use of artificial intelligence by the legal profession and a sample of rulings by Canadian courts 🇨🇦 where lawyers were criticized for filings that contained cases conjured by hallucinating AI tools | #GenAI #Lawyers #LegalEthics claytonrice.com/practising-l…
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⚖️ The Defence Toolkit:
🧑⚖️ Mandatory Minimum Sentences — reasonably foreseeable scenarios.
📜 Sexual Assault — Mens Rea absent a mistake defence.
🔍 Rights — intoxicated and rude accused.
Full post 👉 appeallawyer.ca/the-defence-…
#CriminalLaw #CaseLaw #AppealLawyer #TheDefenceToolkit
Good opinion response to politicians' populist rage against most recently overturned mandatory minimum sentence. This is why #CharterRights are necessary to protect everyone from the political and even majority whims of the moment. winnipegfreepress.com/opinio…
Criminal Defence bar concerned with government overreach in sweeping use of notwithstanding clause by @ABDanielleSmith and the @Alberta_UCP #Red4Ed livewirecalgary.com/2025/11/…
Criminal Defence bar speaking out against sweeping use of notwithstanding clause by @ABDanielleSmith and the @Alberta_UCP #Red4Ed calgaryherald.com/news/polit…
CDLA, CTLA, SADL, RDCDLA joint statement on
@Alberta_UCP and premier @ABDanielleSmith's sweeping use of the Notwithstanding Clause. #ableg #Constitution #Red4Ed
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⚖️ New on The Defence Toolkit:
🧑⚖️ Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act — immunity from arrest
📜 Fresh Evidence after guilty plea — consent capacity revisited
🔍 Expert evidence — trial errors corrected
👉 appeallawyer.ca/the-defence-…
#CriminalLaw #CaseLaw #TheDefenceToolkit
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“Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist” @cbussewitz 👉🏻 @AP | #courts #lawyers #AI
apnews.com/article/artificia…
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Here’s my post on R. v. Liu where the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal 🇨🇦 held that the trial judge erred in admitting the expert opinion of a drug expert resulting in a miscarriage of justice and ordered a new trial | #FairTrials #ExpertEvidence #DrugLaw claytonrice.com/bungling-of-…
