SUPREME COURT OF CANADA Citation : R. v. Banwait , 2011 SCC 55, [2011] 3 S.C.R. 533 Date : 20111108 Docket : 34044 Between: Her Majesty The Queen Appellant and Amandeep Banwait Respondent Coram : McLachlin C.J. and LeBel, Deschamps, Fish, Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell, Moldaver and Karakatsanis JJ. Reasons for Judgment : (paras. 1 to 2) McLachlin C.J. (LeBel, Deschamps, Fish, Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell, Moldaver and Karakatsanis JJ. concurring) R. v . Banwait , 2011 SCC 55, [2011] 3 S.C.R. 533 Her Majesty The Queen Appellant v. Amandeep Banwait Respondent Indexed as: R. v . Banwait 2011 SCC 55 File No.: 34044.

2011: November 8. Present: McLachlin C.J. and LeBel, Deschamps, Fish, Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell, Moldaver and Karakatsanis JJ. on appeal from the court of appeal for ontario Criminal law — Trial — Charge to jury — First degree murder — Trial judge properly instructed jury on relationship between planning and deliberation and murder. APPEAL from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal (Laskin, MacPherson and Simmons JJ.A.), 2010 ONCA 869 , 272 O.A.C. 130, 265 C.C.C. (3d) 201, 82 C.R. (6th) 87, [2010] O.J.

No. 5472 (QL), 2010 CarswellOnt 9673, setting aside the accused’s conviction for first degree murder and substituting a conviction for second degree murder. Appeal allowed. Gillian E. Roberts and Stacey D. Young , for the appellant. Philip Campbell , for the respondent. The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by [ 1 ] The Chief Justice — We are all of the view that the appeal should be allowed for the reasons set out by MacPherson J.A. at paras. 178-89 of his dissenting judgment ( 2010 ONCA 869 , 272 O.A.C. 130). [ 2 ] The appeal is allowed and the conviction for first degree murder restored.

Judgment accordingly. Solicitor for the appellant: Attorney General of Ontario, Toronto. Solicitors for the respondent: Lockyer Campbell Posner, Toronto.