Verdicts and Voices

Supreme Court fall preview with Nadia Effendi

Episode Summary

As Canada’s Supreme Court begins its fall session, court watcher Nadia Effendi previews some of the main cases to keep an eye on.

Episode Notes

Verdicts & Voices is a legal current affairs podcast presented by the Canadian Bar Association. With her retinue of expert guests, host Alison Crawford keeps listeners up to date on news, views, and stories about the law and the justice system in Canada.

In this episode, Toronto lawyer and Supreme Court expert Nadia Effendi highlights some of the cases and issues the justices will be dealing with for the rest of 2025. These include matters involving:

• Disclosure of police misconduct records (Chief of the Edmonton Police Service v. John McKee, et al.)
• Medical patents (Pharmascience Inc. v. Janssen Inc., et al.)
• A disappeared man believed to be alive by his insurance company (Deborah Carol Riddle v. ivari)
• A dispute between a former Alberta MLA and the province’s Chief Electoral Officer (Glen L. Resler v. Joseph V. Anglin)
• The bilingualism of the New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor (Société de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick v. The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada)
• Sentencing considerations when an Indigenous perpetrator commits violence against an Indigenous woman (His Majesty the King v. Harry Arthur Cope)
• Overlapping Indigenous territorial claims (Nisga’a Nation v. Malii, aka Glen Williams, et al.; Skii km Lax Ha, aka Darlene Simpson, et al. v. Malii, aka Glen Williams, et al.)