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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:
Criminal Law – Statutes – Indians, Inuit and Métis

R. v. A.A. 2015 ONCA 558
Criminal Law – Statutes
Summary: The accused and G.M.S. were both 16 when they began a relationship. G.M.S. danced in strip clubs, and gave the accused the money. The accused was arrested on more than a dozen charges arising out of the four-month relationship. A judge of the Youth Court found the accused guilty of assault with a weapon, assault, and failure to comply with an undertaking. …

Long Plain First Nation et al. v. Canada (Attorney General) et al. 2015 FCA 177
Indians, Inuit and Métis
Summary: A number of Manitoba First Nations Bands, as successors to the signatories to an 1871 land agreement known as Treaty No. 1, made various claims as to real property located within Winnipeg, known as the Kapyong Barracks; specifically, the piece comprising 159.62 acres, including operational premises previously used by the Canadian armed forces. …

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