Fog Blog Justice Log:

The Supreme Court of Canada says the New Brunswick Court of Appeal made a mistake by denying Dennis Oland bail while he waited to appeal his second-degree murder conviction in the 2011 bludgeoning death of his father, multimillionaire Richard Oland.

In a unanimous, precedent-setting decision released on Thursday morning, the country's highest court says Oland was wrongly denied bail and that it would have set aside Oland's detention order.

"By all accounts, aside from the seriousness of the offence for which Mr. Oland was convicted, he presented as an ideal candidate for bail," states the decision written by Justice Michael Moldaver on behalf of the nine-justice panel.

He was not considered a danger to the public, he was not considered a flight risk, and the grounds of his conviction appeal were not considered "frivolous," the statement said.