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An east London home has been listed for sale little more than a month after it was searched by police in an investigation that led to the city’s largest fentanyl seizure. London police launched a five-month investigation after receiving a tip from the public in November, leading investigators to search three homes in London, two […]
Salacious details can harm the dignity of victims and witnesses, as well as defendants who are later acquitted.
These are examples of cases that have become way too common in the local courts. A 31-year-old man was acquitted Wednesday in a London courtroom after a trial on a charge of pointing a handgun at another man during an argument along the Richmond Row bar strip, largely because the evidence from witnesses at the […]
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario calculated there were at least 1,400 homeless encampments in the province in 2023
They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Court backlogs already were a permanent challenge from coast to coast, before COVID-19 added a second helping of delay. Pandemic restrictions not only slowed the wheels by interrupting courthouse operations; they gummed them up with litigation over the restrictions themselves. Read More
Pre-trial motions began Thursday morning in the trial of five members of Canada's gold-winning 2018 world junior hockey team, all charged with sexual assault in connection with an alleged incident at a downtown London hotel. Read More