R v Boudreault: Imagine There’s No Surcharge
What does it mean to say that a law is constitutional or not? What are we getting at when a label of constitutionality is attached to a law? Of course...
Tagged: Sentencing
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...
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...
