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Prosecuting the Chief of the Defence Staff   Could the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) be prosecuted under the Code of Service Discipline? Recently, Global […]
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R v Christmas – Beware the Ghosts of Judgments Past       On 10 November 2020, in his decision in R v Christmas,  the Deputy Chief Military […]
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R v MacPherson et. al.: Judicial Independence Redux On 15 September 2020, the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) ‘suspended’ his CDS Designation Order, 2 Oct […]
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Discretion is the Better Part of Valour Statutory Decision-Making   [Author’s Note: During this past week-end, I learned that my friend and colleague, Major (retired) Charles […]