Who is Heather Pringle?

Heather Pringle is an Ontario lawyer with 41 court cases on record from 2003 to 2017.

What courts has Heather Pringle appeared in?

Heather Pringle has appeared in Court of Appeal, Superior Court of Justice, Court of Justice, with most appearances at the Court of Appeal.

How many cases has Heather Pringle handled?

Heather Pringle has 41 cases on record from 2003 to 2017.

What judges has Heather Pringle appeared before?

Heather Pringle has most frequently appeared before Justice Kathryn N. Feldman, Justice James C. MacPherson, Justice David Watt.

minicounsel

Criminal and Quasi-Criminal Law

Immigration Law

Heather Pringle

OCA

Also known as: Heather Pringle (amicus), H. Pringle

Elevated to the Bench

cases · OCA, SCJ, OCJ

Trial

Motion

Costs

Appeal

Sentencing

41 total

Conviction based on testimony of witness found to have fabricated other allegations ruled unreasonable.

The appellant was convicted of one count of trafficking in a narcotic, based entirely on the evidence of a single witness.

The trial judge had acquitted the appellant on three charges of sexual assault and another trafficking charge, finding that the same witness had deliberately fabricated those allegations to avoid paying a debt.

On appeal, the Court of Appeal held that the conviction was unreasonable, as there was no clear or logical basis for the trial judge to accept the witness's evidence on the one charge after rejecting the rest of her testimony as fabricated.

The appeal was allowed and an acquittal entered.