Pub Bans and Sealing Orders

Pub Bans and Sealing Orders


R. v. Huth 2013 BCSC 2123
In addition to granting access to videotape exhibits to CTV in this judgment, from the BCSC, Justice Macaulay sets out a media exhibit access protocol to be followed in future criminal trials in B.C.

Pub Bans and Sealing Orders


2013 SKCA 122
A Saskatchewan Court of Appeal judge has dismissed a publication ban application in a protracted securities hearing and awarded costs to the Leader Post.

Pub Bans and Sealing Orders


R. v. Haevischer 2013 BCSC 2014
A coalition of media organizations including Postmedia, Global and the CBC united in opposing this application for a publication ban. The applicant "failed to establish that the publication ban he seeks is necessary...application dismissed."

Pub Bans and Sealing Orders


R. v. Wilks 2013 CM 4017
This decision comes from a Military Court in which it was deemed functus to modify a publication ban. The decision also sets out the practice for future applications.

Pub Bans and Sealing Orders


Canadian Broadcasting Corporation et al v. Saint John Police Force et al NBQB 167
Justice William T. Grant, of the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench quashed a publication ban, previously granted by a provincial court judge, on the names of the persons searched and of the murder suspect in the on-going investigation into the 2011 murder of Richard Oland.