R v Hills

JurisdictionAlberta
CourtCourt of Appeal (Alberta)
JudgeThe Honourable Mr. Justice Brian O’Ferrall,The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas W. Wakeling,The Honourable Madam Justice Jolaine Antonio
Citation2020 ABCA 263
Date10 July 2020
Docket Number1801-0376-A; 1901-0064-A

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23 practice notes
  • R v Quintero-Gelvez
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • February 24, 2023
    ...361 (child abduction); The Queen v. Hilbach, 2020 ABCA 332; 394 C.C.C. 3d 179, rev’d, 2023 SCC 3 (firearm robbery); The Queen v. Hills, 2020 ABCA 263; 391 C.C.C. 3d 37, rev’d, 2023 SCC 2 (intentional discharge of a firearm into a place); The Queen v. SLW, 2018 ABCA 235; 363 C.C.C. 3d 448 (s......
  • R. v. Hilbach
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • January 27, 2023
    ...v. Steele, 2007 SCC 36, [2007] 3 S.C.R. 3; R. v. Purcell, 2007 ONCA 101, 220 O.A.C. 207; R. v. Johnas (1982), 41 A.R. 183; R. v. Hills, 2020 ABCA 263, 9 Alta. L.R. (7th) 226; R. v. Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23; R. v. Boudreault, 2018 SCC 58, [2018] 3 S.C.R. 599; R. v. Nasogaluak, 2010 SCC 6, [2......
  • R v Badu
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • August 10, 2022
    ...be subjected to any cruel and unusual treatment or punishment”. It says nothing about disproportionate sentences. See The Queen v. Hills, 2020 ABCA 263, ¶ 230; 391 C.C.C. 3d 37, 123 per Wakeling, J.A. (“One would have thought that the drafters of section 12 of the Charter would have include......
  • R. v. Hills
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • January 27, 2023
    ...7th ed. Toronto: LexisNexis, 2022. APPEAL from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal (O’Ferrall, Wakeling and Antonio JJ.A.), 2020 ABCA 263, 9 Alta. L.R. (7th) 226, [2021] 2 W.W.R. 31, 391 C.C.C. (3d) 37, 466 C.R.R. (2d) 286, 65 C.R. (7th) 233, [2020] A.J. No. 740 (QL), 2020 CarswellAlt......
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23 cases
  • R v Quintero-Gelvez
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • February 24, 2023
    ...361 (child abduction); The Queen v. Hilbach, 2020 ABCA 332; 394 C.C.C. 3d 179, rev’d, 2023 SCC 3 (firearm robbery); The Queen v. Hills, 2020 ABCA 263; 391 C.C.C. 3d 37, rev’d, 2023 SCC 2 (intentional discharge of a firearm into a place); The Queen v. SLW, 2018 ABCA 235; 363 C.C.C. 3d 448 (s......
  • Saskatchewan (Minister of Education) v. UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Saskatchewan)
    • August 11, 2025
    ...recently put it, “the core tenets of fairness in our criminal justice system” (Poulin, at para. 5). (Emphasis added) See also R v Hills, 2020 ABCA 263, reversed by R v Hills, 2023 SCC 2, which contain an extensive discussion of the s. 12 Charter right in the context of sentencing under the ......
  • R v Al Aazawi
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • November 8, 2022
    ...many of the sentencing objectives and principles prescribed in the ... [Criminal] Code are not attainable”) & The Queen v. Hills, 2020 ABCA 263, ¶ 141; 391 C.C.C. 3d 37, 91, leave to appeal granted, [2020] S.C.C.A. No. 304 per Wakeling, J.A. (“our sentencing system is broken and too oft......
  • R v Hilbach
    • Canada
    • Court of Appeal (Alberta)
    • September 18, 2020
    ...remote nor far-fetched because it is uncommon (see also Newborn, paras 45-46; Ookowt, para 82). Additionally, as outlined in R v Hills, 2020 ABCA 263, paras 81-82, any reasonably foreseeable application of the law with respect to firearms involving violence must consider the psychological e......
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