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- Title
Proportionality as a Moral Process: Reconceiving Judicial Discretion and Mandatory Minimum Penalties.
- Authors
Witten, Lauren
- Abstract
The article discusses the author's views about the moral aspects of proportionality in criminal sentencing in Canada as of 2017, and it mentions potential reforms involving judicial discretion and mandatory minimum sentences. The Supreme Court of Canada's (Court's) ruling in the case firearms possession case R v. Nur is examined, along with punishment, prosecutorial decision making, and the relationship between the Court and Canada's Parliament.
- Subjects
CANADA; PROPORTIONALITY in law; LAW &; ethics; CRIMINAL sentencing; JUDICIAL discretion; MANDATORY minimum sentences; CANADA. Supreme Court; PUNISHMENT; CANADA. Parliament
- Publication
Ottawa Law Review, 2017, Vol 48, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0048-2331
- Publication type
Article