Supreme Court of Canada - Applications for leave to appeal dismissed

In an unsurprising development, this morning, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) dismissed four applications for leave to appeal judgments from the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.  All four judgments concerned the independence of military judiciary, a topic that was the subject of the recent SCC judgment in R v Edwards, 2024 SCC 15.

Corporal (Ret’d) Ryan Wade Cookson v. His Majesty the King

Naval Cadet Remington v. His Majesty the King

Sergeant V.N.E. Turner v. His Majesty the King

Soldat Mohammad El Zein v. His Majesty the King