Highlights from the Decisionsof the Supreme Court of Canadain Criminal Matters in 2019
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered a number of decisions involving criminal law issues. In this edition’s column, I intend to highlight a number of the most significant decisions rendered by the Court in 2019 (up to October 31). These decisions involved the following issues: •the authority of Canadian police to detain and arrest; •the questioning of sexual offence complainants on their prior sexual activity; and •the importance of respecting victims in the trial process by refraining from pejorative and demeaning language. Let us start with the Supreme Court’s decisions on the admissibility of prior sexual activity of complainants in sexual offence trials.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.049 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.014 | 0.020 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".