Veronika Nayir

Being At Home: The Children’s Law Reform Act and Jurisdiction in Dunmore v Mehralian

In Dunmore v Mehralian, the Supreme Court of Canada provided an answer to the question: what does it mean for a child to be habitually resident in a place?

Sentencing Maturity: SCC Speaks on the Youth Criminal Justice Act in R v I.M.

In R v I.M., the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) ruled that the standard of proof to rebut the presumption of diminished moral blameworthiness, which governs the imposition of adult sentences for youth, is the beyond a reasonable doubt standard.