Sean Fine

Review requested by Toronto Police Chief who acknowledged criticism of his comments after the verdict

The 3-0 ruling by Ontario’s Divisional Court this week is the first from a court in that province on gender-affirming care and on treatment for non-binary people

Judges in Canada have mostly stayed away from telling the Prime Minister, cabinet and the legislative branch what to do – but Federal Court Justice Henry Brown’s recent ruling cast aside that tradition

8-0 ruling says 2019 law, called an Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, Youth and Families, was within Ottawa’s jurisdiction

The ruling ends a battle that lasted more than five years over where the bounds of cabinet confidentiality end and the public’s right to know begins

An international human-rights lawyer is questioning why the former prime minister’s comments had been redacted for decades

Author Steven Galloway wins right to sue sexual assault accuser for defamation in case highlighting tension between ‘cancel culture’ fears and risk of silencing assault survivors

Judge argues Chinese man’s plan to study at the University of Waterloo fits Beijing’s evolving spy tactics

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Friday that the government of the Northwest Territories acted unreasonably in rejecting the claims of five parents by failing to consider ‘Charter values’

The statement , posted on social media, was endorsed by a group of Canadian lawyers and former judges, led by lawyer Mark Sandler of Toronto, who is Jewish

Newfoundland and Labrador appeal court tosses the acquittal of a man who let his four dogs starve nearly to death and orders a new trial

Broken-promise case brought by 21 First Nations over compensation for lands ceded in 1850 treaty is among the most important reconciliation matters heard by the court in recent years

Justice Moreau, who has been a judge on Alberta’s top trial court for the past 29 years, faced an ad hoc committee of parliamentarians as part of her appointment process

The court’s fall docket will include cases touching on criminal law, the workplace and Indigenous treaty rights, while one seat remains unfilled

Google’s search engine is covered by federal privacy law, opening the door for people to demand to have their names be made unsearchable

Chronic staffing issues and mould problems plaguing the ability of provincial courts to function

New legislation proposed in Senate is response to Supreme Court ruling eliminating mandatory lifetime registration for multiple sex offences in single prosecution

The decision to set up a review panel means several more weeks, if not months, in which the Supreme Court of Canada will need to function with eight members instead of nine

Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown’s leave means a strong voice for provincial rights is absent as the court takes on a federalism case

Ruling is the latest to consider how the particular circumstances of Indigenous offenders should affect everything from sentences to what a jury is allowed to hear about the accused during trial