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A Gladue Report, for the purposes of sentencing, may be ordered by the court to provide information related to an Individual's Indigenous heritage for the purposes of s.718.2(e). A Gladue Report is an Indigenous specific form of a Pre-Sentence Report, a report typically ordered to inform the court of the background of an individual prior to ...
For example, if there is a minimum sentence of imprisonment, the court cannot use the Gladue Principle to impose a sentence lower than the minimum. However, courts have considered the Gladue Principle in determining the constitutionality of minimum sentences which are set by the Crown, depending on whether the Crown elects to serve a notice of ...
The Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration (CIMM) is a standing committee of the Canadian House of Commons that studies issues related to citizenship and immigration in Canada. [ 1 ] It has oversight of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada , as well as monitoring federal policy ...
Another example of this more general kind of defence is the "i.d. defence", which is really just an assertion by the accused that the Crown has failed to prove the identity of the perpetrator of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt. There are many other examples of this kind of defence.
Section 718 of the Criminal Code sets out the purposes of sentencing [6] and acts to protect society and to contribute, along with crime prevention initiatives, respect for the law and the maintenance of a just, peaceful and safe society by imposing just sanctions that include one or more of a codified list of sentencing objectives, [7] as follows:
Mugesera v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), [2005] 2 S.C.R. 100, is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision. The Court upheld the deportation order for Léon Mugesera , a politician from Rwanda , on the grounds of inciting hatred and for suspicion of crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the Rwandan genocide .
Indictment filed in Erie federal court alleges resident of St. Marys, Elk County, shipped disassembled guns to Canada with reassembly instructions.
The International Transfer of Offenders Act (French: Loi sur le transfèrement international des délinquants) is Canadian federal legislation.Passed in 2004, it allows Canadians who had been convicted of a crime in another nation to apply to serve their sentence, or a portion thereof, in a Canadian prison. [1]