Summaries Sunday: Supreme Advocacy

One Sunday each month we bring you a summary from Supreme Advocacy LLP of recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers a weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, to which you may subscribe. It’s a summary of all Appeals, Oral Judgments and Leaves to Appeal granted from February 5 to March 9, 2022 inclusive.

Oral Judgments

Criminal Law: Delay
R. v. Boulanger, 2022 SCC 2 (39710)

Jordan ceiling exceeded, more than one month; delay presumed unreasonable.

Criminal Law: Delay
R. v. Ste-Marie, 2022 SCC 3 (39381)

Defence cannot “benefit from…delay causing conduct or…tactics…”

Criminal Law: Sexual Assault
R. v. A.E., 2022 SCC 4 (39699) (39703)

Withdrawal of sexual consent; honest but mistaken belief; bias; Kienapple.

Leaves to Appeal Granted

Civil Litigation: Foreign Judgment Enforcement
Eilers v. Lanfer, et al., 2021 BCCA 241 (39848)

Foreign judgment enforcement issues.

Immigration: Inadmissibility
Mason v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2021 FCA 156 (39855)

Consideration of inadmissibility on security grounds.