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CBA Influence | January 23, 2024
Perfecting Canada’s post-conviction review process
The Criminal Justice Section of the Canadian Bar Association, in a letter to the House of Commons Justice and Human Rights Committee, offers comments on Bill C-40, Miscarriages of Justice Review Commission Act (David and Joyce Milgaard’s Law).
CBA Influence | November 28, 2023
Isolation should not constitute cruel and unusual punishment
The Canadian Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section and its Committee on Imprisonment and Release wrote to warn that Correctional Service Canada’s proposed policy does not meet international standards surrounding solitary confinement and violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
CBA Influence | November 28, 2023
Keeping a cool head on bail reform
Everyone in Canada is presumed innocent until proven guilty, including individuals with prior criminal records, writes the Criminal Justice Section of the Canadian Bar Association in a letter to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs about Bill C-48, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail reform). “This presumption applies at every stage of the criminal justice process, including and especially the bail stage.”
