Canadian sentenced to death in China given new trial
James Griffiths, Mike Hager / theglobeandmail - Retrial of Robert Schellenberg ordered weeks after thaw in Canada-China relations
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Supreme Court ruling sets out exception to confidentiality between lawyer and client
Jim Bronskill / theglobeandmail - Lawyer can invoke an ‘innocence at stake’ exception when they seek access to their client’s privileged communications for use in their own defence
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Inside the 'con code', the unwritten rules that could be fuelling prison violence
Darryl Greer / nationalobserver - In a Surrey, BC, pretrial centre, an inmate is goaded into fighting his cellmate — dubbed a "rat" by fellow prisoners — but then dies after being put in a 10-minute chokehold.
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