R. v. Brunelle, 2024 SCC 3
Jurisdiction | Federal Jurisdiction (Canada) |
Judge | Wagner, Richard; Karakatsanis, Andromache; Rowe, Malcolm; Martin, Sheilah; Kasirer, Nicholas; Jamal, Mahmud; O’Bonsawin, Michelle |
Docket Number | 39917 |
Date | 26 January 2024 |
Court | Supreme Court (Canada) |
Citation | 2024 SCC 3 |
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8 practice notes
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R v Brunelle,
...québécoise des avocats et avocates de la défense and Association des avocats de la défense de Montréal-Laval-Longueuil Interveners 2024 SCC 3 Present: Wagner C.J. and Karakatsanis, Rowe, Martin, Kasirer, Jamal and O'Bonsawin JJ. DOCKET: 39917 SUPREME COURT OF CANADA Constitutional law — Cha......
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Table of Cases
...92, 123-24, 126, 178, 189-90, 202 Brownridge v R , [1972] SCR 926, 1972 CanLII 17 .............................. 322, 375 Brunelle , R v , 2024 SCC 3, af ’g 2021 QCCA 1317, rev’g on remedy 2018 QCCS 6155 .................................... 374-75, 377-78, 380, 383, 386 Brydges , R v , [199......
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Right to Counsel: Implementational Obligations
...facilitating access to counsel is feasible at the time and place that the detainee invokes the right regardless of whether it occurs at 95 2024 SCC 3, af ’g 2021 QCCA 1317, rev’g on remedy 2018 QCCS 6155. 96 Ibid at para 82 (cited to SCC). 97 Tremblay , supra note 92 at para 41. See also R ......
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R v A.B.,
...Nixon, 2011 SCC 34, [2011] 2 S.C.R. 566, at paras. 41, 59; R. v. Babos, 2014 SCC 16, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 309, at para. 31; and R. v. Brunelle, 2024 SCC 3, at para. 48 On rare occasions, in the “clearest of cases”, a stay of proceedings is warranted for an abuse of process. As recently affirmed ......
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R v Brunelle,
...québécoise des avocats et avocates de la défense and Association des avocats de la défense de Montréal-Laval-Longueuil Interveners 2024 SCC 3 Present: Wagner C.J. and Karakatsanis, Rowe, Martin, Kasirer, Jamal and O'Bonsawin JJ. DOCKET: 39917 SUPREME COURT OF CANADA Constitutional law — Cha......
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R v A.B.,
...Nixon, 2011 SCC 34, [2011] 2 S.C.R. 566, at paras. 41, 59; R. v. Babos, 2014 SCC 16, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 309, at para. 31; and R. v. Brunelle, 2024 SCC 3, at para. 48 On rare occasions, in the “clearest of cases”, a stay of proceedings is warranted for an abuse of process. As recently affirmed ......
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United States v Sari,
...by Justice Moldaver, writing for the majority, in R. v. Babos, 2014 SCC 16 (later confirmed by the Supreme Court in R. v. Brunelle, 2024 SCC 3). In Babos, the Supreme Court of Canada described a stay of proceedings as “the most drastic remedy a criminal court can order”: at para. 30. A stay......
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R v Lloyd,
...a person who would otherwise be free from state interference. 37 In its most recent pronouncement on abuse of process in R. v. Brunelle, 2024 SCC 3, 92 C.R. (7th) 219, the Supreme Court of Canada, at paras. 27-28, set out the parameters for the finding of an abuse of process: The law on abu......
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2 books & journal articles
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Table of Cases
...92, 123-24, 126, 178, 189-90, 202 Brownridge v R , [1972] SCR 926, 1972 CanLII 17 .............................. 322, 375 Brunelle , R v , 2024 SCC 3, af ’g 2021 QCCA 1317, rev’g on remedy 2018 QCCS 6155 .................................... 374-75, 377-78, 380, 383, 386 Brydges , R v , [199......
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Right to Counsel: Implementational Obligations
...facilitating access to counsel is feasible at the time and place that the detainee invokes the right regardless of whether it occurs at 95 2024 SCC 3, af ’g 2021 QCCA 1317, rev’g on remedy 2018 QCCS 6155. 96 Ibid at para 82 (cited to SCC). 97 Tremblay , supra note 92 at para 41. See also R ......