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Sex assault reforms problematic but lawyers hail Criminal Code cleanup

Thursday, June 08, 2017 @ 10:17 AM | By Cristin Schmitz

Ottawa’s plan to purge more than two dozen constitutionally dubious reverse onuses and evidentiary presumptions from the Criminal Code has won widespread applause from the bar, but lawyers warn that proposed...

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