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12/05/2024

Bouleversée, la plaignante a quitté la salle d’audience en larmes, alors qu’une douzaine de proches de Brad Aeon célébraient. En mêlée de presse, l’avocat de la défense Me Adam Ginzburg a souligné les conséquences « dévastatrices » du processus judiciaire pour son client.

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Pour sa défense, Brad Aeon a répété s’être toujours assuré du consentement de Violette pendant leurs rapports sexuels « respectueux et consensuels ». Il disait par exemple qu’il ajustait la puissance de sa claque s’il réalisait qu’elle avait été trop forte. Selon la juge, ses explications soulèvent un doute raisonnable quant au consentement de la plaignante.

L’ex-professeur de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Brad Aeon a été acquitté mercredi d’avoir agressé sexuellement et violenté une femme à de nombreuses reprises. La juge lui a fait bénéficier du doute raisonnable, malgré les contradictions et le « manque de transparence ...

10/25/2024

Ginzburg Legal takes the top spot in the 2024 ''Best In Mtl'' list

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08/02/2024

While some may think shoplifting is a petty crime that will get the offender a slap on the wrist, retailers are concerned about losing money and are cracking down on theft, meaning if you're caught you could have a criminal record that will impact your future.

Shoplifting and retail theft have become a $5 billion annual problem and the Retail Council of Canada (RCC) is concerned about thefts becoming more brazen and violent with weapons being used.

02/15/2024

Ottawa has been ordered to start appointing judges across the country more quickly, according to the Toronto Star. The ruling found that vacant judicial slots have backlogged the legal system, in some cases leading to criminal cases being tossed out.

Housing isn’t the only shortage facing the...

12/15/2023

The ringleader of the largest art fraud operation in Canadian history — and, per one investigating officer, in world history — was sentenced to 5 years in prison yesterday.

The first of eight suspects accused in a massive Indigenous art fraud case has been sentenced to five years in prison in a northern Ontario court Thursday.

12/08/2023

Murder conviction overturned because eyewitness was legally blind

A judge in Chicago overturned a murder conviction Tuesday after defense lawyers produced evidence that an eyewitness who testified during the 2014 trial was legally blind.

11/24/2023

A jury has found Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence official accused of leaking secret information to police targets, guilty of all charges against him.

The former civilian RCMP member faced six charges in total, including multiple counts under the Security of Information Act, the law meant to protect Canada's secrets.

The Crown suggested they'll be seeking a sentence in the range of 20 years.

A jury has found Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence official accused of leaking secret information to police targets, guilty of all charges against him.

11/22/2023

Systematic lying in court is so common in the United States that officers have coined a term for it: testilying. A New York mayoral commission investigating police in the mid-1990s found that officers often perjured themselves on the witness stand. “Perjury is perhaps the most widespread form of police wrongdoing facing today’s criminal justice system,” the report said.

Academics have found that lying is woven into the fabric of police culture. Arresting officers realize they can lie to secure confessions. Senior officers know they can exaggerate to lobby for bigger budgets. For some, a form of “noble cause corruption” is at play—a sense that any means will justify the ends of securing social order and making sure the bad guys go to jail.

Widespread perjury among police is well documented. Obfuscating has become a routine part of policing

10/11/2023

The question before the court in R v Wilson, 2023 SKCA 106 was whether police can arrest someone found committing a criminal offence when that person cannot be lawfully charged with that offence. Police arrested Paul Wilson for possession of a controlled substance while responding to a 911 call about his friend’s fentanyl overdose. Their incidental investigation revealed unauthorized fi****ms, resulting in Wilson’s charge and conviction on several fi****ms offences.

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal concluded that including fi****ms in the evidence against Wilson when they were discovered only because police unlawfully arrested him would put lives at risk. The court overturned the convictions and entered acquittals.

Admission of evidence risks human life in future cases, says court

10/10/2023

This will be the first time a court tests charges under the Security of Information Act.

"Not only is it a test case, there could be a lot of lessons learned for how to deal with intelligence-to-evidence cases in other contexts, where we want to prosecute other national security cases."

There's only been one conviction under the Security of Information Act in the 21-year-old law's history. A Canadian naval officer pleaded guilty in 2012 to selling secrets to Russia during a preliminary hearing.

Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence official accused of breaking Canada's secrecy law, was trying to sell RCMP operational information to individuals linked to the criminal underworld — including targets of police investigations — the Crown team said in its opening remarks.

08/30/2023

Canada is the only G7 nation without a comprehensive regulatory framework for cybersecurity. To remedy this, the government tabled Bill C-26 last year. If it passes, which could happen this year, it would require critical federally-regulated industries to report cybersecurity incidents (somehow not already a thing) and beef up their defences.

Here are our early predictions for what will...

08/30/2023

Dans ce 7ème épisode de Football Inc., le podcast où le monde du football rencontre le monde des affaires. Raymond Ndjonok-Tonye (coach Ray) est rejoint par ...