NrLawyers Blog - Sexual Assault

October 14th, 2014

We've written before about the negative impact a criminal charge can have on a professional's career and reputation. An...

October 1st, 2014

Questions regarding the reliability of witness statements often come up in sexual assault cases, especially if it is...

September 22nd, 2014

Being convicted of a sex-related offence in Ontario can not only result in a jail sentence; individuals convicted of sex...

September 17th, 2014

Historical allegations of sexual assault are taken very seriously by Canadian courts. If the accused individual was in a...

September 9th, 2014

Sexual assault allegations arise from a wide variety of circumstances. As we discussed in a recent post, a sexual assault...

August 27th, 2014

Charges of sexual assault are not always based on allegations of extreme violence. Sometimes actions that one party thinks...

August 13th, 2014

People convicted of violent sexual offences can face a long list of penalties and restrictions in addition to prison time....

August 7th, 2014

When a complainant makes a sexual assault allegation many years after the offence is said to have occurred, the reliability...

August 1st, 2014

The conviction of a Halifax lawyer accused of sexual assault continues to be a controversy. The Crown argued that the...