Established on April 8, 1875, the Supreme Court of Canada is situated in Ottawa, Canada. It is the highest court in Canada and the Canadian Justice System’s final court of appeals. Every year the court grants up to 75 permissions to litigators to appeal decisions that have been made by territorial and provincial courts. All decisions made by the Supreme Court of Canada are considered as the ultimate expression of Canadian law and are binding upon all other courts in Canada – the only exception is if they are overridden by legislation or an Act of Parliament.
The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a decision that suggests journalistic source protection, which many reporters and editors believe is guaranteed under a law brought in by the Trudeau government, is far from absolute. Now, though, judges have clear guidance on how to weigh the rights of the accused against society’s need for media … Read more
Some words of warning from the courts: if you do something embarrassing at a party, you can’t sue if your soon-to-be-ex friends post a picture of it on Twitter, Facebook or some other social media (at least, outside Quebec, where privacy laws are pretty strict). This week, the Supreme Court of Canada turned down an … Read more