SCC clarifies the “single transaction” test and the “temporal-causal connection” approach for first degree murder in R v Sundman
After more than seven months of deliberation, Justice Mahmud Jamal, writing unanimously for the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”), dismissed Mr. Darren Sundman’s appeal and upheld the Court of Appeal for British Columbia’s (“BCCA”) conviction for first degree murder in R v Sundman, 2022 SCC 31 [Sundman].