Pub Bans and Sealing Orders
April 29, 2024
Ahmad v. Peel Regional Police Services Board, 2024 ONSC 2474
The CBC (represented by Iain MacKinnon) and CCLA (represented by Iris Fischer and Laura Dougan) intervened in this case where five police officers sought anonymization orders to conceal their identities. The officers were the Defendants ...
April 12, 2024
Schoenborn (Re Application), 2024 BCRB 1001
Allan Schoenborn (convicted in February 2010, of killing his three children and found NCRMD) applied to the BC Review Board to obtain a publication ban over his “new name” in any future proceedings before the ...
December 12, 2023
S.E.C. v M.P. 2023 ONCA 821
These appeals concern the scope and limits of the open court principle in the context of the court approval of settlements involving minor parties or parties under disability as required by r. 7.08 of the ...
November 27, 2023
R. v. Riley, 2023 NSSC 377
The NSSC denied a request from the Federal Crown for a retroactive publication ban. Randy Riley was acquitted by a jury of second-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm on October 5, 2023. Kaitlin ...
October 6, 2023
La Presse inc v Quebec 2023 SCC 22
S and C were charged with several criminal offences in unrelated cases. In both cases, numerous matters were dealt with before the empanelment of the jury, including a Garofoli application, an application for a stay ...