var select={root:".js-sub-pencil",control:".js-sub-pencil-control",open:"o-sub-pencil--open",closed:"o-sub-pencil--closed"},dom={},allowExpand=!0;function pencilInit(o){var e=arguments.length>1&&void 0!==arguments[1]&&arguments[1];select.root=o,dom.root=document.querySelector(select.root),dom.root&&(dom.control=document.querySelector(select.control),dom.control.addEventListener("click",onToggleClicked),setPanelState(e),window.addEventListener("scroll",onWindowScroll),dom.root.removeAttribute("hidden"))}function isPanelOpen(){return dom.root.classList.contains(select.open)}function setPanelState(o){dom.root.classList[o?"add":"remove"](select.open),dom.root.classList[o? Earlier this week, the Court of Appeal struck down a decades-old section of the Criminal Code as unconstitutional. If not, is there a middle ground that the courts, and the #MeToo generation, might accept?The ruling came in two cases: In one, a man tried to kill himself with an overdose of anti-depressants, and then stabbed his mother, stopping only when she said, “I’m your mother.” In the other, a high-school student high on magic mushrooms stabbed his father to death and wounded his father’s partner.Although neither case involved alcohol or sexual assault, the underlying issue was the same as in a precedent-setting case that involved both.In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Henri Daviault, an alcoholic accused of sexually assaulting a 65-year-old woman in a wheelchair, must be allowed to use the defence of extreme intoxication. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. Justices David Paciocco, David Watt and Peter Lauwers found that a person must act voluntarily to commit a crime.
In four cases, lower courts in British Columbia, Quebec and Nunavut upheld the law; in six, in Ontario and the Northwest Territories, judges ruled it invalid. “What will the ruling mean for the vast number of women sexually assaulted by intoxicated men? Has it been overhyped and misunderstood? (She ultimately found that the man had not shown automatism, and convicted him of sexual assault.
TORONTO, ONT. “The judgment of the court makes it very difficult for Parliament to ever pass laws to protect women from violence given that the Charter doesn’t seem to have room for women as rights holders.”Dean Embry, a criminal-defence lawyer in Toronto not involved in the case, said the public has the wrong idea about what the appeal-court ruling means. Extreme intoxication came up in several other cases in which judges presumed the law to be valid.Why did the Ontario Court of Appeal say the law violated the Constitution?Because a core principle of Anglo-Canadian justice protected by the Charter of Rights is that no one can be convicted for conduct that is not voluntary, the court said. The court states that it is unconstitutional to convict someone who is … TORONTO -- The provincial and federal New Democrats are calling for an appeal of a recent Ontario court ruling allowing people accused of sexual assault or … While she sympathized with concerns the ruling would undermine protections for sexual assault victims, she said they were overblown.“I don’t see it as seriously undermining the rights of victims,” Zwibel said. If you are looking to give feedback on our new site, please send it along to To view this site properly, enable cookies in your browser. The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that self-induced intoxication may now be considered a lawful defence for violent crimes such as sexual assault in certain cases, sparking outrage across Canada. This is a space where subscribers can engage with each other and Globe staff.
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