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 – Contempt

R. v. Salah (G.) et al. 2015 ONCA 23
Criminal Law
Summary: C.R. told her friends that Parish was a paedophile. Parish allegedly decided to silence C.R. by setting fire to her home. Parish assembled a team to execute the plan, two to set the fire (McDowell and S.C.) and a third to act as a lookout (Salah). The fire was set. C.R.’s two children died in the fire. C.R. escaped. S.C. pleaded guilty to second degree murder and testified for the Crown in proceedings against Parish, Salah and McDowell. …

R. v. Grant (M.E.) 2015 SCC 9
Criminal Law
Summary: In 2007, Grant was charged with the first degree murder of 13 year old Candace Derksen that occurred almost 23 years earlier. The Crown’s case depended substantially on the recent analysis of small quantities of DNA found at the crime scene. Grant challenged the DNA evidence. He also sought to lead evidence suggesting that an unknown third party suspect had committed the crime. That evidence related to the alleged abduction of 12-year-old P.W. committed within months of the …

Bea v. Strata Plan LMS 2138, Owners 2015 BCCA 31
Contempt
Summary: The dispute in this case arose over a change to a parking bylaw passed by a strata council respecting the assignment of parking stalls. The Beas, strata owners, objected to the bylaw change. Six years of court proceedings ensued, including abuse of process declarations by the courts respecting the Beas. The British Columbia Supreme Court (chambers judge), in a decision reported [2014] B.C.T.C. Uned. 826, found Mrs. Bea to be in contempt and ordered that the strata unit belonging …