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513 documents for Reduction of sentence

- R. v. Nasogaluak , 2010 SCC 6 ; [2010] 1 S.C.R. 206, 2010 SCC 6 (2010)
... law -- Charter of Rights -- Remedy -- Sentence reduction -- Police abuse -- Breaches of accused's...
- Supreme Court of Canada
- R. v. Gladue, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 688 (1999)
... -- Aboriginal offenders -- Accused sentenced to three years' imprisonment after pleading guilty... not be taken as requiring an automatic reduction of a sentence, or a remission of a warranted perio...
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Evaluating the Youth Criminal Justice Act after five years: a qualified success.
... that facilitate the imposition of adult sentences for the most serious offenders address these conce... and thereby contributed to the reduction in the use of custody. The Court has also emphasiz...
- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Vol. 51 Nbr. 2, April 2009

- R. v. Ipeelee , 2012 SCC 13, R. v. Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13, 2012 SCC 13 (2012)
...He was sentenced to six years' imprisonment followed by an LTSO aft... his aboriginal status should lead to a reduction in his sentence for breach of the long-term offend...
- Supreme Court of Canada
- 'Bail Is Not Jail:' Appeal Court
[Theodore Lismer]'s ruling took Irvine's 30-month sentence down to 21 months. Lismer then decided Irvine qualifies for a conditional sentence to be served in the community because the penalty was now less than two years. Crown attorney Brian Wilford vehemently argued against the credit, saying the court really only had [Christopher Irvine]'s "self-serving" word that he obeyed conditions of his bail. He noted Winnipeg police only conducted two curfew checks during the approximate 600 days Irvine was free. The Court of Appeal also overturned Lismer's decision to exempt Irvine from the national sex offender registry. [Richard Scott] said there was no compelling reason to do so and Lismer "erred.

... should be rewarded with a nine-month reduction of his sentence because of his good behaviour on b...
- Winnipeg Free Press
- August 25, 2009
- Title: section 24(2): does the truth cost too much?
... the breach relevant when determining the sentence imposed upon a guilty party. On 12 May 2004, Lyle ... exceptional circumstances, a sentence reduction outside of the statutory limits may be appropriate...
- University of New Brunswick Law Journal
- Nbr. 62, January 2011
- R. v. Middleton, 2009 SCC 21 (2009)
... law -- Sentencing -- Intermittent sentences -- Conditional sentences -- Accused convicted of a... held in Proulx -- is not "subject to reduction through parole" (para. 42). [35] Justice Cromwell ...
- Supreme Court of Canada
- Canada (Attorney General) v. J.P., 2010 FCA 90 (2010)
... of second degree murder and was sentenced, pursuant to subparagraph 42(2)(q)(ii) of the YCJA... conditional sentence is not subject to reduction through parole. This would seem to follow from s. ...
- Federal Court of Appeal
- Inmate perspectives on the remand crisis in Canada.
... proportion of 25% remand to 75% sentenced has shifted radically to the point where, in 2006,...Ministers of justice argue for a reduction to 1.5 to 1, but is this warranted? Roberts (2005)...
- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Vol. 51 Nbr. 3, July 2009
- R. v. M. (C.A.), [1996] 1 S.C.R. 500 (1996)
... judge sentencing accused to cumulative sentence of 25 years' imprisonment -- Court of Appeal reduc... incorrect in law, it also justified its reduction with reference to a contextual application of the ...
- Supreme Court of Canada