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Kirk Makin is a Canadian author and the justice reporter for The Globe and Mail.

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Supreme Court shields informant ID

L awyers for two B.C. bureaucrats caught up in a political corruption trial should not attend a secret meeting where the identity of a police informant is likely to be exposed unless special measures are taken to shield his identity, the Supreme Court ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gary Collins

Top court backs Crown in protecting Basi-Virk informant

A legal battle that delayed a political corruption trial for nearly two years in British Columbia has been ended by a Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the Crown's right to protect the identity of a secret informant. The nation's top court ruled ...

From MARK HUME AND KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Bolton,  Leonard Krog

Courts can't order Khadr's return, lawyer argues

T he courts have no greater right to order Omar Khadr be returned to Canada than they have to order the recall of Canada's' ambassador to Washington to protest his detention or the massing of battleships on the Baltic Sea, a federal lawyer told the ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Omar Khadr,  Ian Binnie,  Barack Obama,  Al-Qaeda,  Louis LeBel

Top court to rule on Khadr case

A fter tying Parliament and the justice system in knots for seven years, the Omar Khadr case reaches a crescendo Friday as the Supreme Court of Canada considers ordering the federal government to seek his return. Should the court uphold a 2008 Federal ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Omar Khadr,  Al-Qaeda,  Barack Obama

Catholic priest released on bail one day after sentencing for sexual abuse

J USTICE REPORTER A Catholic priest who moved from parish to parish in Northern Ontario for a decade abusing altar boys was freed on bail yesterday, less than 24 hours after he was sentenced to five years behind bars. Mr. Justice Michael Moldaver of the ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Paul Kane

Catholic priest faces sentencing for sexual abuse

J USTICE REPORTER Father Bernard Cloutier will stand alone in a Sudbury courtroom today to be sentenced for his sexual abuse three decades ago of a group of altar boys who had idolized him. Missing from the prisoner's dock, but present in spirit, will ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Roman Catholic Church,  Paul Kane

Ruling gives Crown stronger shield against lawsuits

J USTICE REPORTER Crown attorneys are breathing easy today after a Supreme Court of Canada ruling made it exceedingly difficult to sue them for malicious prosecution. The 7-0 ruling overturned a finding of civil liability against a Saskatchewan ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Louise Charron

Supreme Court exonerates attorney

T he Supreme Court of Canada has exonerated a Saskatchewan Crown attorney who vigorously prosecuted a bizarre sex abuse case involving allegations of ritual abuse and murder against a group of children. In a 7-0 ruling, the Court overturned a finding ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Louise Charron

CIting long slog to trial, Appeal Court overturns aggravated assault conviction

J USTICE REPORTER The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned an Ontario woman's conviction for tying up her ex-boyfriend so that her lover could stab him, faulting the Crown for creating intolerable trial delays. The court concluded that there was no ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009

Legal aid takes hits in B.C., Ontario

Mentally ill people who need legal assistance in Ontario will now have to fend for themselves after a decision by mental-health lawyers to abandon legal-aid cases. And in B.C., critics say cuts to the legal-aid program will hurt society's most ...

From KIRK MAKIN, Globe and Mail,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Leonard Krog

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