R v Suter: The Difficulties of Sentencing
On June 29, 2018, the Supreme Court of Canada (the “Supreme Court”) delivered its ruling in R v Suter, 2018 SCC 34 [Suter], a case which, at its core, “raises...
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R v Jackson: A New Standard for Social Context in Sentencing Law
This guest post was contributed by third-year Osgoode Hall Law School student Jamie Shilton (JD, Class of 2019). No serious assessment of the Canadian criminal justice system would be complete...
A response to R v Boutilier and the Constitutionality of Indeterminate Sentences
The following post responds to Devon Kapoor’s earlier case comment, which can be found here. Mr. Kapoor’s insightful post discusses a central issue in R v Boutilier, 2017 SCC 64...
R v Boutilier: The Dangerous Offender Regime and the Spectre of Indeterminate Sentences
On December 21st, 2017, the Supreme Court released its decision in R v Boutilier, 2017 SCC 64 [Boutilier], which deals with a constitutional challenge to the dangerous offender scheme in...
