R. v. Doering

JurisdictionOntario
CourtCourt of Appeal (Ontario)
JudgeDoherty,Fairburn,Paciocco
Citation2022 ONCA 559
Date28 July 2022
Docket NumberC67952

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11 practice notes
  • R v. Brunswick
    • Canada
    • Provincial Court of Nova Scotia (Canada)
    • July 3, 2025
    ...cause of death (R v Nette, 2002 SCC 78 at paras 14-22 and 71-72 [Nette]; R v Maybin, 2012 SCC 24 at para 44-45 [Maybin]; R v Doering, 2022 ONCA 559 at para 136; R v Gardner and Fraser, 2021 NSCA 52 at para 81). Causation can be proven even where the accused’s unlawful actions are not the on......
  • R. v. Marchant
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Ontario)
    • July 8, 2024
    ...the necessaries of life in the context of a police officer failing to provide the necessaries of life to a detainee in R. v. Doering, 2022 ONCA 559, 162 O.R. (3d) 161, leave to appeal refused, [2022] S.C.C.A. No. 338. As Doherty J.A. explained in Doering, at para. 38, there are four element......
  • R. v. Brazier
    • Canada
    • Superior Court of Justice of Ontario (Canada)
    • June 2, 2023
    ...legal cause turns on a normative evaluation which reflects the common sense and moral instincts of the trier of fact. See R. v. Doering, 2022 ONCA 559 at para. [156] Legal causation is established where the Crown proves that the defendant’s conduct amounts to a “significant contributing cau......
  • R. v. Wheeler
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Ontario)
    • November 10, 2025
    ...testimony in rejecting the suggestion that a finding of criminal negligence was unreasonable: Sillars, at para. 76. In R. v. Doering, 2022 ONCA 559, 162 O.R. (3d) 161, leave to appeal refused, [2022] S.C.C.A. No. 338, the accused was allowed to describe how his conduct conformed to his usua......
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3 cases
  • R v Marchant
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Ontario)
    • July 8, 2024
    ...the necessaries of life in the context of a police officer failing to provide the necessaries of life to a detainee in R. v. Doering, 2022 ONCA 559, 162 O.R. (3d) 161, leave to appeal refused, [2022] S.C.C.A. No. 338. As Doherty J.A. explained in Doering, at para. 38, there are four element......
  • R v Doering
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Ontario)
    • May 14, 2024
    ...court allowed the appeal on the criminal negligence causing death count, quashed the conviction, and entered an acquittal: R. v. Doering, 2022 ONCA 559, 162 O.R. (3d) 161. With respect to the failing to provide the necessaries count, Doherty J.A. wrote, at paras. 147-148: As the appellant h......
  • R v Cassie-Berube
    • Canada
    • Superior Court of Justice of Ontario (Canada)
    • May 9, 2024
    ...of life include medical attention that is necessary to protect a person's health or safety from harm or risk of harm: see R. v. Doering, 2022 ONCA 559, at para. 37, leave to appeal dismissed, 2023 CanLII 8270 (S.C.C.). The evidence of Drs. Kepron and Barrieras establishes that medical atten......