Sexual assault charges in Ontario can seriously affect your career — even if you are never convicted. From reputational harm to job loss, the consequences can be immediate and long-…
Physical contact between people is highly personal. Under Canadian law, if you intentionally touch someone without their consent for a sexual purpose, police can charge you with sex…
Between April 2017 and February 2020, the online news website Vox compiled a list of 262 celebrities, politicians, prominent business executives, and other influential people accuse…
Given the news coverage, you might wonder whether the accused can protect their reputations even if ultimately found innocent in court. To answer this question, let’s go back 10 yea…
You might wonder what criminal defence strategies a criminal defendant might try to mount. With expertise in sexual assault criminal defence in the Greater Toronto Area, Mass Tsang …
Toronto and the rest of Canada take sexual assault crimes seriously. For convicted offenders, they could spend up to a decade in prison. And so, when allegations are brought up agai…
Securing relevant evidence in any criminal case takes time, but securing decades-old evidence makes it more challenging. Of course, the timing of a sexual assault investigation by C…
“Is it against the law to date a minor in Canada?” a 50-something-year-old client asked one of our criminal defence lawyers recently.
Is recording someone without their consent illegal in Canada? The answer depends on the context — public or private spaces, harassment, or voyeurism laws.
Stealthing, or non-consensually removing a condom during sex, is now considered a form of sexual assault in Canada. Understanding this offence and its legal implications is crucial …
Two elderly Canadian billionaires are making headlines after police agencies charged them with sexual assault and other sexual offences earlier this Spring. In late May,
According to the latest “Incident-based crime statistics” report from Statistics Canada, Ontario police investigated over 12,000 sexual assaults reported in 2022. While more than ha…
