CRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police AccountabilityRight to Silence Disappointing Supreme Court decision on ‘voluntary’ statements to the police On October 14, 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in R v…Abby DeshmanOctober 14, 2022
CTV News: Denying bail to reduce B.C. crime a ‘dangerous’ proposition: Canadian Civil Liberties Association https://bc.ctvnews.ca/denying-bail-to-reduce-b-c-crime-a-dangerous-proposition-canadian-civil-liberties-association-1.6108211
Constitutional RemediesCRIMINAL JUSTICEFair Trial RightsFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingPolice Coercion & EntrapmentPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police AccountabilityProsecutorial Misconduct CCLA at the Supreme Court to ensure meaningful adjudication of Charter claims The CCLA is at the Supreme Court of Canada today arguing that courts should not…Abby DeshmanOctober 4, 2022
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
Conditions of ConfinementCRIMINAL JUSTICEPRESS RELEASESPrisons, Jails & Community SupervisionSearch & SeizureSolitary Confinement Groups: Canada must end “extreme”, prolonged solitary confinement The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, John Howard Society Canada, the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry…CCLAAugust 30, 2022
Conditions of ConfinementCRIMINAL JUSTICEPrisons, Jails & Community SupervisionSearch & SeizureSolitary Confinement CCLA and Others Renew Calls to Limit Dry Cell Use – An “Extreme” Form of Solitary Confinement Earlier this summer the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and a number of other groups urged…Abby DeshmanAugust 30, 2022
CRIMINAL JUSTICEDeescalation & Use of ForcePolice Powers, Use of Force & Police AccountabilityPolice Transparency, Oversight & Accountability Death in Vancouver highlights lethality of “less lethal” weapons On Monday morning Chris Amyotte, a 42-year-old father of seven from Winnipeg and member of…Abby DeshmanAugust 25, 2022
CRIMINAL JUSTICEDNA ForensicsEQUALITYPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police AccountabilityPRIVACYRace, Religion & EthnicityRacial ProfilingRefugees & ImmigrationSearch & SeizureUnreasonable Search & Seizure Human Rights Tribunal Finds Police DNA Sweep was Discriminatory Earlier this week the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruled that the Ontario Provincial Police (“OPP”)…Abby DeshmanAugust 23, 2022
Criminal Prohibitions on SpeechEQUALITYFreedom of ExpressionFUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMSPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police Accountability CCLA Intervening in Challenge to Sex Work Laws The CCLA recently filed its written argument in Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform…Cara ZwibelAugust 16, 2022
Arbitrary DetentionCRIMINAL JUSTICEEQUALITYPolice Powers, Use of Force & Police AccountabilityRace, Religion & EthnicityRacial Profiling CCLA argues against expanded police detention powers at Supreme Court CCLA is intervening in a case before the Supreme Court to argue that the police…CCLAAugust 10, 2022