Add to ORKGOver the last number of years, the Government of Canada (which has exclusive constitutional jurisdiction over criminal law in Canada) enacted various pieces of legislation mandating the imposition of mandatory minimum periods of imprisonment for specific offences contained within the Criminal Code of Canada, R.S.C. 1985. This has included: – the Safe Streets and Communities Act, S.C. 2012, c 1 (which imposed mandatory minimum penalties for certain sexual offences against children and which amended the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, R.S.C. 1985, to provide for minimum penalties for certain drug offences)1; and – the Increasing Offenders’ Accountability for Victims Act, S.C. 2013, c 11 (which requires that a minimum “victim surcharge” b...
Since the early days of the Charter, uncertainty prevailed about constitutional exemptions as a reme...
Section 231(5)(e) of the Criminal Code elevates murder to first-degree murder when a death is caused...
This article considers the increased use of mandatory sentencing regimes around the world. It argue...
Over the last number of years, the Government of Canada (which has exclusive constitutional jurisdic...
This research examines judicial intervention striking down mandatory minimum sentencing laws in Cana...
In the past fifteen years, mandatory minimum sentences have become significantly more prominent in C...
This paper attempts to assess the impact that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has had, a...
The text of section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Eighth Amendment to th...
This paper attempts to assess the impact that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has had, a...
As a priori political judgments about what is a just punishment in all circumstances, minimum senten...
This article addresses the question of why Canada still has mandatory minimum sentences despite inqu...
As a priori political judgments about what is a just punishment in all circumstances, minimum senten...
Over the last several decades, Parliament has steadily increased the use of mandatory minimum senten...
In this article, the author discusses the nature and consequences of the mandatory sentences of impr...
The nearly three decades in which Beverley McLachlin was a member of the Supreme Court, including 18...
Since the early days of the Charter, uncertainty prevailed about constitutional exemptions as a reme...
Section 231(5)(e) of the Criminal Code elevates murder to first-degree murder when a death is caused...
This article considers the increased use of mandatory sentencing regimes around the world. It argue...
Over the last number of years, the Government of Canada (which has exclusive constitutional jurisdic...
This research examines judicial intervention striking down mandatory minimum sentencing laws in Cana...
In the past fifteen years, mandatory minimum sentences have become significantly more prominent in C...
This paper attempts to assess the impact that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has had, a...
The text of section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Eighth Amendment to th...
This paper attempts to assess the impact that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has had, a...
As a priori political judgments about what is a just punishment in all circumstances, minimum senten...
This article addresses the question of why Canada still has mandatory minimum sentences despite inqu...
As a priori political judgments about what is a just punishment in all circumstances, minimum senten...
Over the last several decades, Parliament has steadily increased the use of mandatory minimum senten...
In this article, the author discusses the nature and consequences of the mandatory sentences of impr...
The nearly three decades in which Beverley McLachlin was a member of the Supreme Court, including 18...
Since the early days of the Charter, uncertainty prevailed about constitutional exemptions as a reme...
Section 231(5)(e) of the Criminal Code elevates murder to first-degree murder when a death is caused...
This article considers the increased use of mandatory sentencing regimes around the world. It argue...