The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sentencing an Indigenous person to a jail term instead of a conditional sentence does not violate the Constitution in cases of crimes involving maximum ...

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 ...

The federal government doesn’t have to try to reduce the disproportionate incarceration rates of Indigenous peoples when it passes crime laws, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The court split ...

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time. Barber was found guilty of mischief and counselling ...

According to the tenth edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, a conditional is a clause or sentence which begins with ‘if’ or ‘unless’, and expresses a condition. However, this week’s ...

Armstrong S, McIvor G, McNeill F & McGuinness P (2013) International Evidence Review of Conditional (Suspended) Sentences. Scottish Government - Learning & Justice ...