Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
Mandi Gray’s comment after Ontario Superior Court Justice Dambrot upheld the appeal of Mustafa Ururyar, who had been found guilty of sexually assaulting her, is a simple yet powerful indictment of the criminal system’s response to sexual violence. She went Continue reading “It really doesn’t matter what I want.”
The past couple of years have provided Canadians with more than ample opportunity to consider how Canadian judges handle sexual assault cases. Most notorious and best known, of course, was the trial of Jian Ghomeshi, a former icon of the Continue reading Sexual assault school for Canada’s judges?
R v Wagar and R. v Al-Rawi: two sexual assault cases that have made headlines recently about the need for judicial education on sexual assault for judges. Just who was the accused? R v Wagar is the Alberta sexual assault Continue reading Will they ever learn? Judges and sexual assault cases
Many survivors of sexual assault who engage with the criminal system feel like they have entered a maze from which they may never emerge. On June 6th, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould introduced Bill C-51, which will update a number of Continue reading Bill C-51: A good start, but not enough