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Jian Ghomeshi Trial – If Accusers Kept In Touch Does It Matter

Jian Ghomeshi Trial – If Accusers Kept In Touch Does It Matter Toronto criminal lawyer and Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman partner Boris Bytensky comments on the Jian Ghomeshi trial in a column on the CTVNews.ca website.

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Toronto Sun Guest Column: Acquittal would be just result in Ghomeshi case

Toronto Sun Guest Column: Acquittal would be just result in Ghomeshi case In a Toronto Sun guest column, DPS partner and Toronto criminal lawyer Boris Bytensky writes, “It is not enough to show the complainants may be telling the truth, despite their inconsistencies and subsequent conduct — rather, the correct question to ask is reversed […]

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Sonya Shikhman: It’s Self-Defence in Myles Hughes Case

Sonya Shikhman indicated that her client’s defence will stand on the testimony of three witnesses. Myles Hughes’ lawyer says her client used a gun to defend himself and several friends from violent intruders who invaded his home on March 2010. Those remarks incapsulated the stance of Hughes’ defence lawyer, Sonya Shikhman, during her opening address […]

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Mr. Prutschi is a panelist with NewsTalk1010

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Tory Wants to Add “Rape” to Criminal Code

Tory Wants to Add “Rape” to Criminal Code Over 30 years ago, the term rape was taken out of Criminal Code of Canada and was instead replaced with the broader term of sexual assault. While many legal analysts have said that such an umbrella term is problematic and cannot encompass the full scope of sexual […]

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Trial Lawyers Need To Be Aware Of The Basis For Appeal

A good trial lawyer will be very alive to errors that a judge is making in the course of a trial, though in the midst of the trial there’s virtually nothing you can do about them. A judge has complete control and discretion over how he or she is making the rulings as the case […]

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Boris Bytensky

I am one of the senior partners at Bytensky Shikhman, a criminal litigation firm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In my 25+ year career, I have conducted numerous trials and appeals before all levels of Court in Ontario, defending just about every type of charge in our criminal law. I am also an Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School and currently the Treasurer of the Criminal Lawyers' Association of Ontario. I am also an Adjunct Professor for Trial Advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University and a regular lecturer and placement supervisor for Osgoode's Intensive Programme in Criminal Law.

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Jian Ghomeshi Trial – If Accusers Kept In Touch Does It Matter

Toronto Sun Guest Column: Acquittal would be just result in Ghomeshi case

Sonya Shikhman: It’s Self-Defence in Myles Hughes Case

Mr. Prutschi is a panelist with NewsTalk1010

Tory Wants to Add “Rape” to Criminal Code

Trial Lawyers Need To Be Aware Of The Basis For Appeal

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