A P.E.I. man who breached a conditional sentence in a sexual assault matter has been ordered to serve the remaining time in jail. Livingstone pleaded guilty to the charge of indictable sexual assault.

Equating time served in the community with time spent in jail opens up the door to absurd possibilities within immigration law, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. In an unanimous decision, ...

Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...

The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of a law that prevented a judge from allowing an offender to avoid jail by imposing a conditional sentence for certain crimes. The top ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Ontario Court of ...

A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has found that Criminal Code provisions prohibiting conditional sentences for certain offences did not infringe an Indigenous woman’s equality rights, because ...

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two prominent figures in the 2022 convoy protests, have been given conditional sentences after they were found guilty of mischief in April. Addressing a packed courtroom ...

Calling Duff Arthur Friesen’s moral culpability “high,” a Saskatoon judge ruled the former Christian school principal will serve a community sentence after being convicted of assault with a weapon.