CRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingFreedom of AssociationFreedom of ExpressionFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSRight to ProtestSentencing CCLA Testifies on Bill C-70 Before Senate Standing Committee National Security, Defence, and Veterans Affairs On June 10, 2024, Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, Director of the Fundamental Freedoms Program, and Shakir…CCLAOctober 22, 2024
CRIMINAL JUSTICEDisabilityEQUALITYFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingPrisons, Jails & Community SupervisionSentencing CCLA Intervening Before Supreme Court to Ensure Fairness in Sentencing for Individuals with Mental Health Conditions or Cognitive Disabilities The CCLA has been granted leave to intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada in…Shakir RahimAugust 20, 2024
CRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingSentencingYouth CCLA Intervening Before Supreme Court of Canada to Protect Rights of Youth in the Criminal Justice System The CCLA has been granted leave to intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada in…Shakir RahimMay 28, 2024
CRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingPrisons, Jails & Community SupervisionSentencing No, Longer Prison Sentences do not Reduce Crime Over 100 criminologists, social scientists, legal academics and civil society organizations have signed a letter…Abby DeshmanSeptember 16, 2022
CRIMINAL JUSTICEEQUALITYFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingIndigenous PeopleSentencing CCLA Argues Against Discriminatory, Overly Punitive Criminal Code Provisions at the Supreme Court Many parts of our criminal law sweep too many people into punitive regimes, creating adverse…Abby DeshmanMarch 29, 2022
CRIMINAL JUSTICECruel & Unusual PunishmentFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingPrisons, Jails & Community SupervisionSentencing CCLA Argues for Basic Human Dignity as Fundamental Value in Criminal-Penal System Before the Supreme Court Eliminating all hope of release by revisiting a person's incarceration in light of personal change…Abby DeshmanMarch 29, 2022
CRIMINAL JUSTICECruel & Unusual PunishmentFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingSentencing Upholding the Right to be Free From Cruel and Unusual Punishment at the Supreme Court CCLA appears before the Supreme Court of Canada in two cases, R v Hills and…Abby DeshmanMarch 22, 2022
CRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingSentencing CCLA Applies to Intervene at Supreme Court of Canada in Sentencing Process Cases On May 18, pro bono counsel representing the CCLA appeared before the Supreme Court of…Abby DeshmanMarch 12, 2021
Community SupervisionConstitutional RemediesCRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingSentencing CCLA at the Supreme Court: Does a Charter violation require a remedy? Mr. Bird doing too much bird is the issue before the Supreme Court of Canada…Michael BryantFebruary 6, 2019
CRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingSentencing BC Court of Appeal Strikes Down Another Mandatory Minimum Sentence Just two months after declaring the mandatory minimum sentence for possession of child pornography unconstitutional…Guest AuthorJanuary 23, 2019