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CRIMINAL JUSTICE EQUALITY Fair Trial, Due Process & Sentencing Indigenous People Sentencing

CCLA Argues Against Discriminatory, Overly Punitive Criminal Code Provisions at the Supreme Court

Many parts of our criminal law sweep too many people into punitive regimes, creating adverse…

Abby DeshmanMarch 29, 2022

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Cruel & Unusual Punishment Fair Trial, Due Process & Sentencing Prisons, Jails & Community Supervision Sentencing

CCLA Argues for Basic Human Dignity as Fundamental Value in Criminal-Penal System Before the Supreme Court

Eliminating all hope of release by revisiting a person's incarceration in light of personal change…

Abby DeshmanMarch 29, 2022

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Cruel & Unusual Punishment Fair Trial, Due Process & Sentencing Sentencing

Upholding the Right to be Free From Cruel and Unusual Punishment at the Supreme Court

CCLA appears before the Supreme Court of Canada in two cases, R v Hills and…

Abby DeshmanMarch 22, 2022

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Fair Trial, Due Process & Sentencing Sentencing

CCLA Applies to Intervene at Supreme Court of Canada in Sentencing Process Cases

On May 18, pro bono counsel representing the CCLA appeared before the Supreme Court of…

Abby DeshmanMarch 12, 2021

Community Supervision Constitutional Remedies CRIMINAL JUSTICE Fair Trial, Due Process & Sentencing Sentencing

CCLA at the Supreme Court: Does a Charter violation require a remedy?

Mr. Bird doing too much bird is the issue before the Supreme Court of Canada…

Michael BryantFebruary 6, 2019

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Fair Trial, Due Process & Sentencing Sentencing

BC Court of Appeal Strikes Down Another Mandatory Minimum Sentence

Just two months after declaring the mandatory minimum sentence for possession of child pornography unconstitutional…

Guest AuthorJanuary 23, 2019

CRIMINAL JUSTICE Criminal Records & Collateral Consequences Criminal Records & Police Record Checks EQUALITY Sentencing Socio-Economic Status

WHAMMY! Supreme Court of Canada Strikes Down Canada’s Ugliest Populist Criminal Law

It’s not everyday that civil libertarians hit a home run in the Supreme Court of…

Michael BryantDecember 14, 2018

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