Summaries Sunday: Supreme One-Liners

As a supplement to our Sunday Summary each month, Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa presents Supreme One-Liners, a super-short descriptive guide to the most recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers its more comprehensive weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, summarizing all Appeals, Oral Judgments and Leaves to Appeal granted.

Appeals

Criminal Law: Attempted Murder; Aiding Suicide
R. v. B.F., 2025 SCC 41 (41420)

Attempted murder conviction restored; aiding suicide “no air of reality”.

Oral Judgment

Criminal Law: Sexual Assault; Inadequacy of Trial Judge Reasons
R. v. Ouellet, 2025 SCC 40 (41785)

Inadequacy of trial judge reasons in criminal context.

Leaves to Appeal Ganted

Prisons: Rotational Lockdowns
Diggs, et al. v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General), et al., 2025 NSCA 20 (41801)

Habeas corpus in rotational lockdowns context.