Supreme Court of Canada Strikes Down Mandatory Jail for Gun Offence
- January 31, 2023
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The phrase illegal and cruel punishments was first used by the United Kingdom Parliament in the Bill of Rights 1689 and later adopted in the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States 1791 as cruel and unusual punishments….
Plea Bargaining: An Alberta Trilogy
- January 15, 2023
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
Plea bargaining is not only commonplace but essential to the administration of the Canadian criminal justice system. In the modern practice of criminal law the bargain is called a joint submission when the prosecutor and defence counsel agree on a…