Supreme Court set to rule if extensions to rape shield laws violate rights
Rape shield laws, which have been in place in Canada for several decades, are intended to prevent a complainant in aSupreme Court restores conviction of man who challenged rape shield law
The Criminal Code says evidence of a complainant’s prior sexual activities that are unrelated to the charges at hand can only be admitted with permission of a judge following a private hearing. The court ruling today will determine whether some extensions to those laws made in 2018 violate the rights of an accused to a fair trial.Story continues below advertisement
Those extensions include granting a complainant standing and the right to a lawyer at the private hearings on evidence, and that an accused must request permission from the judge with at least seven days’ notice to admit private records of a complainant that the accused has in his possession. It involves two separate appeals that were heard jointly by the Supreme Court, one brought by an accused and another a complainant.Are police mishandling sexual assault cases across Canada? – Sep 24, 2019
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