reliability

R v Slatter: Victory or Missed Opportunity for Rights of Women with Intellectual Disabilities?

[Content warning: this article contains discussion of sexual violence against women with disabilities]. When hearing the appeal in R v Slatter, 2019 ONCA 807 [Slatter (ONCA)], the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) was presented with an opportunity to further the substantive equality rights of women with intellectual disabilities in the criminal justice system, and to […]

Catch & Release: Redefining Hearsay Admissibility in R v Bradshaw

In June 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada (“the SCC”) ruled in R v Bradshaw that the test for using corroborative evidence to establish substantive reliability of hearsay evidence is a strict one. If it is being used to establish the reliability of a hearsay statement, the corroborative evidence must (a) go to the material […]