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R. v. R. E. M., R. v. H. S. B.

The Supreme Court hands down a pair of decisions (R. E. M., H. S. B.) giving some guidelines on the sufficiency of judicial reasons. The lead case is R. E. M., where the Court first of all provides a solid grounding for why “a trial judge on a criminal trial where the accused?s innocence is at stake has a duty to give reasons.” That is actually a point that some have argued against, so it’s nice to see it set down here as the law of the land. As far as the adequacy part goes, r read more

Full post as published by Criminal Review on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).