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Sections 9, 10 And 11 Of The Canadian Charter, Steve Coughlan, Robert Currie
Sections 9, 10 And 11 Of The Canadian Charter, Steve Coughlan, Robert Currie
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Section 9 of the Charter guarantees freedom from arbitrary detention, section 10 provides certain rights on arrest, and section 11 guarantees various rights to those charged with an offence. In this chapter the authors consider the aspects of these rights which have been authoritatively determined, as well as pointing to the areas which remain unsettled and discussing the areas of lingering controversy.
Imagining Success For A Restorative Approach To Justice: Implications For Measurement And Evaluation, Jennifer Llewellyn, Bruce Archibald, Donald Clairmont, Diane Crocker
Imagining Success For A Restorative Approach To Justice: Implications For Measurement And Evaluation, Jennifer Llewellyn, Bruce Archibald, Donald Clairmont, Diane Crocker
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Whether restorative justice is “successful,” or not, is a complex question. Attempts to answer this question by practitioners, professionals, and scholars have often been bounded by common notions of success in standard criminal justice terms. The authors of this paper suggest that if restorative justice is properly understood in terms of its focus on relationship, success should be measured on new and different dimensions. This paper seeks to bring a relational imagination to the scholarly effort of capturing the essence of restorative justice and figuring out how to assess its successes and failures. The authors offer a foundation and agenda …
Telus: Asking The Right Questions About General Warrants, Steve Coughlan
Telus: Asking The Right Questions About General Warrants, Steve Coughlan
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The general warrant provisions in the Criminal Code have often been interpreted by lower courts in a way which threatens to make that power quite open-ended, and to make those warrants available as a way of making an "end run" around the requirements of other provisions. This note argues that the Supreme Court of Canada is correct, in Telus,to adopt a "substantive equivalence" approach to general warrants, thereby limiting the circumstances in which they can be used. Lower courts have sometimes taken the view that a general warrant is only unavailable if the proposed technique would fall squarely within some …