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Introduction Generally, extradition is the surrender by one country to another of a person charged with, or convicted of a crime in the requesting country. Canada’s Extradition Act, and a series of treaties to which it is a party, contemplate extradition both to and from Canada. Prior to the significant revisions to the Extradition Act in[…]

Paper Presented at Federation of Law Societies National Criminal Law Program, Quebec City, July, 2011, Section L.2 Author: Mark J. Sandler Nature of the Duty Section 10(b) of the Charter provides that everyone has the right on arrest or detention to retain and instruct counsel without delay and to be informed of that right. The language[…]

My past two terms as an elected Bencher have been challenging and rewarding. I have worked very hard as a Bencher: for example, in 2010 alone, I was engaged in Bencher work on 111 days. I believe that my experience as a Bencher (particularly as Chair of the Appeal Panel, Chair of the Tribunals Committee and[…]

Grant and Suberu: The Supreme Court’s Synthesis of the Law of Detention and Search Incident to Investigative Detention Published: February 05, 2011 Grant and Suberu: The Supreme Court’s Synthesis of the Law of Detention and Search Incident to Investigative Detention. Written By: Scott Bergman and Corie Langdon[1]for OBA Institute 2011 “A materially refreshed analytical lens is to[…]

The Partners at Cooper, Sandler Shime & Bergman LLP are pleased to announce that Jennifer Strate has joined our firm as an Associate effective July 26th, 2010. Jennifer is a welcome addition to the firm.

Paper Presented At Federation of Law Societies National Criminal Law Program St. John’s, Nlfd., July, 2010, Section 0.1 Author: Mark J. Sandler Introduction This paper briefly examines the offence of sexual assault. Other papers address sexual interference and related offences (O.2), and common defences to crimes of a sexual nature, namely consent (P.1) and mistaken belief in[…]

Paper Presented At Federation of Law Societies National Criminal Law Program St. John’s Nfld., July, 2010, Section 0.1 Author: Mark J. Sandler Organizations, and most significantly corporations, act or omit to act through their officers, directors, agents and employees. Not surprisingly, jurisprudence exists on when such organizations bear criminal or regulatory liability under either the Criminal Code or other[…]

The Attorney General required the accused in a lengthy and complex fraud trial to be tried by a judge and jury in the Superior Court, despite the election of all accused to be tried by a Provincial Court judge (that is, in the lower court). The Attorney General relied on his powers under s.568 of the Criminal[…]

The Partners at Cooper, Sandler Shime & Bergman LLP are pleased to announce that Megan Schwartzentruber has joined the firm as an Associate effective June 16, 2010. She is a welcome addition to our firm.

Effective August 24, 2009 Cooper & Sandler has become a limited liability partnership (“LLP”), as permitted by the Partnerships Act and the Law Society Act and is now known as “Cooper, Sandler Shime & Bergman LLP” (the “Firm”).