PERSON CHARGED WITH FIREARM OFFENCES. Police don’t provide evidence to the Crown or Defence for over 1 year. What if this person had been denied bail?
IF YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF IN A SITUATION WHERE A POLICE OFFICER READS TO YOU YOUR RIGHTS TO COUNSEL AND ASKS IF YOU WISH TO TALK TO A LAWYER YOUR ANSWER IS ALWAYS “YES!“
“WHEN IT COMES TO BAIL REFORM BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.” “Simplistic, tough-on-crime responses to similar tragedies in the past put in motion a pendulum that has now swung in the other direction. Canada has wrestled for decades with a bail system that many experts, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada, believe is overcautious and risk-averse to a fault. But everyone involved should remember that tougher bail conditions are what brought the pendulum out of equilibrium in the first place.” #criminallaw #bail #reform
IN THIS SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE the entirety of the Crown’s case was the admission of an unsworn video-recorded statement given to the police without the opportunity to cross-examine, and that’s okay according to the Supreme Court.
BEWARE OF IMMIGRATION CONSEQUENCES OF A GUILTY PLEA Charges such as impaired driving, assault with a weapon, and break-and-enter, among others, have implications on a person’s immigration status and can result in deportation or loss of status.
Should there be a reverse onus on bail for people charged with possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm or possibly for all firearms offences?
A criminologist sets the factual record straight about police calls for criminal law reform.
A basic principle underlying cross-examination.
DESPITE THE UNDERSTANDABLE EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO THE KILLING OF A POLICE OFFICER IN THE LINE OF DUTY, CANADA’S BAIL SYSTEM IS NOT BROKEN.
Let us not forget that a Judge issued a warrant for that man’s arrest last September. That arrest warrant had been in the hands of the police for 4 months. #police #canada #bail #arrest
