Summaries Sunday: Maritime Law Book

Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca.

This week’s summaries concern:
Constitutional Law/ Courts / Practice/ Aliens / Civil Rights / Criminal Law

Vilardell v. Dunham 2014 SCC 59
Constitutional Law – Courts – Practice
Summary: During the trial of a family action, the plaintiff asked to be relieved from paying the hearing fees imposed by the Crown. The British Columbia Supreme Court, in a decision reported at [2009] B.C.T.C. Uned. 434, determined the family law issues. With respect to the plaintiff’s request to be relieved from paying the fees, the court identified a potential jurisdictional problem and invited submissions from the British Columbia Attorney General, the Law Society of …

Iyamuremye et al. v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2014 FC 494
Aliens
Summary: The applicants applied to be recognized as refugees or persons in need of protection (Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, ss. 96 and 97). The Refugee Protection Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board dismissed the application. The applicants appealed. The Refugee Appeal Division (RAD) dismissed the appeal. The applicants applied for judicial review of the RAD decision arguing, inter alia, that the RAD made a jurisdictional error. The Federal Court allowed the application and referred the matter for …

R. v. Conception (B.) 2014 SCC 60
Civil Rights – Criminal Law – Statutes
Summary: An accused was found unfit to stand trial. The presiding judge made a treatment order under s. 672.58 of the Criminal Code, requiring the accused to submit to anti-psychotic drug therapy. On being informed that no mental health treatment facility beds were immediately available, the judge stipulated in the order that the accused was to “be taken directly from Court to the designated hospital . … Accused is not to be taken …