• More About Wes

    Wes is an associate at ALG. He represents individuals in a wide range of criminal and administrative matters and has appeared as counsel at every level of court in Ontario.
     

    For his first year of law school, Wes attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the American Jurisprudence award for highest standing in constitutional law. Wes subsequently completed his law degree at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2018.

     

    Wes graduated from University College at the University of Toronto, where he majored in political science and American Studies. Before law school, he spent two years as a policy advisor in the Ontario government, with a focus on municipal governance and accountability. Prior to joining ALG, Wes completed his articles at a top full-service law firm, where he developed experience in corporate-commercial litigation and insolvency law.

     

    Wes was called to the bar in 2019 and is a member of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association and the Advocates’ Society.

Notable Cases

R. v. Y.L., 2022 ONCA 460

R. v. G.G., 2021 ONCA 216

A.P. (Re) (26 April 2021), Oshawa 20-00064 (Ont. C.J.)

R. v. K.P., 2021 ONSC 3701

McLeod (Re) (2 June 2021) (OJC)

R. v. T.K., 2021 ONCA 32

R. v. S.M., [2020] O.J. No. 3617 (Ont. C.J.)

Notable Media Publications

Laura Metcalfe and Wes Dutcher-Walls, "Expanding the rationale of minimization to sexual, medical, and religious communications", For the Defence Vol. 42, No. 3 (September 2022)

Wes Dutcher-Walls, "Section 8 Standing and Section 24(2) Applicability: We Know the Difference", For the Defence Vol. 42, No. 1 (May 2022)

Wes Dutcher-Walls, “Aggravated Disproportionality: The Merger Doctrine, Contemporaneous Felony Aggravators, and Intuitive Fairness”, Criminal Law Practitioner (Fall 2017)