Supreme Court Judgments

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R. v. Allender

Collection Supreme Court Judgments
Date 1997-06-20
Report [1997] 2 SCR 333
Case number 25179
Judges Lamer, Antonio; Sopinka, John; Gonthier, Charles Doherty; Cory, Peter deCarteret; McLachlin, Beverley; Iacobucci, Frank; Major, John C.
On appeal from British Columbia
Subjects Criminal law
Notes SCC Case Information: 25179

Decision Content

R. v. Allender, [1997] 2 S.C.R. 333

 

Brian William Frederick Allender                                                     Appellant

 

v.

 

Her Majesty The Queen                                                                   Respondent

 

Indexed as:  R. v. Allender

 

File No.:  25179.

 

1997:  June 20.

 

Present:  Lamer C.J. and Sopinka, Gonthier, Cory, McLachlin, Iacobucci and Major JJ.

 

on appeal from the court of appeal for british columbia

 

Criminal law ‑‑ Murder ‑‑ Accused convicted of first degree murder ‑‑ Court of Appeal judgment upholding conviction affirmed.

 

APPEAL from a judgment of the British Columbia Court of Appeal (1996), 70 B.C.A.C. 241, 115 W.A.C. 241, [1996] B.C.J. No. 224 (QL), dismissing the accused’s appeal from his conviction for first degree murder.  Appeal dismissed.

 

Richard C. C. Peck, Q.C., and Lawrence Myers, for the appellant.

 

William B. Smart, Q.C., for the respondent.

//The Chief Justice//

 

The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

 

1                 The Chief Justice ‑‑ Substantially for the reasons of the majority of the Court of Appeal, the appeal is dismissed.

 

Judgment accordingly.

 

Solicitors for the appellant:  Peck & Tammen, Vancouver.

 

Solicitors for the respondent:  Smart & Williams, Vancouver.

 

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