Judge Gregory Lenehan

• Advocates disappointed after bail granted to former Halifax cab driver convicted of sexual assault

  Former Halifax cab driver Bassam Al-Rawi was released on bail Thursday, after being convicted of sexual assaulting a woman in December 2012.

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  Jan 8, 2021
  
• Judge dismisses motion for mistrial in Halifax cabbie sex assault case

  A Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice has ruled that a Halifax cab driver that he found guilty of sexual assault will not be getting a new trial. 

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  Dec 16, 2020
  
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• Former Halifax taxi driver’s sex assault trial resumes after nearly 6-month hiatus

  Bassam Al-Rawi is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in his apartment in December 2012 after he picked her up in his cab in downtown Halifax.

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  Aug 24, 2020
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• Protest promptly planned in Halifax following Al-Rawi not-guilty verdict

  The protest is scheduled to take place Friday at 4 p.m. at Halifax’s Grand Parade.

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  Sep 4, 2019
• 121 complaints dismissed against Nova Scotia judge who said ‘clearly, a drunk can consent’

  The review committee said the threshold for finding judicial misconduct is high and that after reviewing the trial transcript, it found no evidence of "impermissible reasoning or bias."

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  Apr 4, 2018
• New trial ordered for Bassam Al-Rawi, Halifax taxi driver acquitted of sexual assault

  Bassam Al-Rawi was charged in May 2015 after a Halifax Regional Police officer found a young woman passed out and partially naked in the back seat of his cab.

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  Jan 31, 2018
• Crown says N.S. judge failed to recognize evidence in cabbie’s sexual assault case

  Crown lawyer Jennifer MacLellan said Judge Gregory Lenehan said three times in an oral decision that there was no evidence of a lack of consent.

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  Nov 22, 2017
• ‘A drunk can consent’ judge finds second Halifax cabbie not guilty of sexually assaulting passenger

  Lenehan has previously delivered a controversial decision in another case of a taxi driver accused of sexually assaulting a female passenger in his cab. “A drunk can consent,” Lenehan said as part of his ruling.

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  Sep 21, 2017
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• Nova Scotia review committee to investigate judge’s ‘drunk can consent’ ruling

  In his decision, Judge Gregory Lenehan ruled that the Crown didn’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the complainant didn’t consent to sexual activity with Al-Rawi.

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  Sep 7, 2017
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• Nova Scotia politicians at odds over how to respond in wake of taxi driver acquittal

  In the wake of the controversial acquittal of a man accused of sexual assault, Nova Scotia's political parties can't agree on what - if any - policies and laws to change or how to change them.

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  Mar 14, 2017