Mandatory Minimums & Drug Offences: An Interpretation of R v Lloyd
This guest post was contributed by Lily MacLeod, Faith Cameletti, and Adam Lake. Lily, Faith, and Adam are all JD Candidates (2019) at Osgoode Hall Law School. Before the Supreme...
Tagged: mandatory minimum sentences
A Brief Look at Osgoode’s 2015 Constitutional Cases Conference
Osgoode’s Constitutional Cases Conference is the leading constitutional law conference in Canada and a much anticipated annual event. The Conference, now in its 19th year, brings together constitutional law experts...
Mandatory Minimum Sentence for Drug Offences Struck Down by BC Provincial Court: R v Lloyd
After finding the mandatory minimum sentence for drug possession for the purpose of trafficking (contrary to s. 5(2) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, SC 1996, c 19 [CDSA])...
Conservatives Twist Trudeau’s Tweet: Guns, Rights, Judges, and Mandatory Minimums
Further to my bulletin posted here, on November 12, 2013, the Court of Appeal for Ontario (ONCA) has struck down the three-year mandatory minimum sentence for possession of prohibited or...
BULLETIN: Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Firearms Possession are Unconstitutional, Says ONCA
In a series of six landmark decisions on November 12th, 2013, the Court of Appeal for Ontario (ONCA) struck down the mandatory minimum sentences for possession of prohibited or restricted...
R v Lewis: Just how ‘Mandatory’ Should Mandatory Minimums be?
There is, for my money, no clearer example of the State’s coercive power over an individual than the criminal sentence. There is also, for my money, no other aspect of...
