Media organizations applied to vary a publication ban in a second degree murder prosecution involving the death of a child.
The Crown and defence sought to maintain broader anonymity for the accused, the deceased, and family members, while the applicants proposed a narrower ban limited to the surviving siblings.
Applying the Dagenais-Mentuck framework, the court held the evidentiary record did not establish that a broader ban was necessary to prevent a serious risk to the proper administration of justice.
The ban was varied to prohibit only publication of the names of the surviving children.
