The Aporia
The Aporia
3 articles about 3 events for “Supreme Court Sentencing Rulings”. Events are ordered by how widely they were covered, how many readers opened them, and how recent they are.
“TOP STORY Recommended Videos The Supreme Court of Canada had barely convened for its fall session when it upheld a decision ruling that a Nova Scotia man who badly beat his girlfriend should receive a reduced sentence because he is Indigenous.”
“"In our case, the sentencing remarks are not enough to show bias, and the required showing of perceived bias cannot be tied to this Court's capacity to fairly adjudicate any [post-conviction relief] claims alleged in this case but rather puts this Court in…”
“The Supreme Court panel of nine judges, which included majority-voting Indigenous Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin, considered how sentencing provisions in the Criminal Code related to addressing the issues of the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prisons…”