ncr

Ontario’s Sex Offender Registry Discriminates Against People with Disabilities, rules Ontario v G

Re Shortt: ONCA Finds 6-Year Delay Discharging NCR Man to Appropriate Community Living Unconstitutional

G v Ontario: Will the SCC balance the scales for sex offences and NCR accused?

Is the New NCR Defense Law Too Little, Too Late?

Murder in Shoppers Drug Mart An apparently random stabbing amid the hustle and bustle of Christmas shoppers and downtown professionals stunned the City of Toronto. Rosemarie Junor was making a quick midday stop at a Shoppers Drug Mart when she was brutally attacked by an unknown assailant who left a grave knife wound through her […]

With Divided Medical Evidence in NCR Case, ONCA is Deferent to Jury: R v Downs

The not criminally responsible ("NCR") regime is currently the subject of media and public scrutiny, with the proposed reforms of Bill C-14 (formerly C-54; Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act) in the Senate. In the recent decision of R v Downs, 2014 ONCA 20 [Downs], the Ontario Court of Appeal ("ONCA") reviewed a case in which an […]