Talk:R v Drybones

Confusion as to why Territorial Court judgement after trial de novo referred to as an appeal
Access to the Territorial Court judgement (at library.usask.ca) seems to be restricted, but the Court of Appeal judgement (open access at canlii.org) clarifies that Morrow heard the appeal "from the Magistrate" (i.e. by Drybones against the original conviction). Morrow "granted leave to change the plea, and, having heard the evidence on the trial de novo, [...] allowed the appeal" (italics as in the original, excluding the word 'trial'; bold mine). Perhaps a legal expert could clarify exactly what this means; it suggests to the present non-expert that de novo indicates a recapitulation of the trial, in Morrow's court, as an integral part of the appeal from the magistrate, rather than that the case was returned to the magistrate with a different plea and then (later) appealed again. This article may suggest the latter interpretation by italicising the whole phrase trial de novo, and not mentioning Morrow until the following section.