Exploring Theme: "Court Cases"

Barton is serving a 12½-year prison sentence for manslaughter WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC Indigenous: Cindy Gladue’s family is hopeful that a dismissal of Bradley Barton’s bid for a third trial marks the end of a legal process that has dragged on for more than a decade. On Monday, the Court of Appeal...

 – Arend J.A. Hoekstra, Aaron Cressman, Shermaine Chua ABORIGINAL NationTalk: Cassels, Our Insights – On November 1, 2023, the Quebec Superior Court (Court) released R. c. Montour, which considered whether two First Nation-member defendants were criminally liable for importing substantial amounts of tobacco without paying duties under the Excise Act, 2001.1 R. c. Montour found that the defendants, as members of the...