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Oct 7, 2022 · The Supreme Court today quashed Ellis' 1993 convictions for child sex offences, finding a significant miscarriage of justice occurred. A statement has been released anonymously by an unspecified number of parents of the complainants.
Nov 3, 2023 · The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that mandatory minimum sentences for child luring are overly broad and can result in sentences that violate the Charter of Rights' protection...
Nov 3, 2023 · In a 6-1 ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada has confirmed that mandatory minimum sentences for child luring are unconstitutional, finding that their application to reasonably foreseeable scenarios would be disproportionate.
- Aidan Macnab
Oct 7, 2022 · In a 152-page ruling released this afternoon, New Zealand’s highest court, the Supreme Court, has unanimously agreed to quash all of Ellis’s 1993 convictions for child sexual abuse.
The under-reporting of sexual violence against children is compounded by the ways in which the criminal justice system and the court process have historically failed children, including through rules of evidence premised on the assumption that children are inherently unreliable witnesses (see R. v. Levogiannis, 1993 CanLII 47 (SCC), [1993] 4 S ...
The Supreme Court judges said that sentences have to reflect the harm to the child, which can last a lifetime, and might not be fully known right away. They said sentences also have to reflect society’s deeper understanding of the wrongfulness of sexual violence against children.
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Mar 26, 2019 · In R v Morrison, 2019 SCC 15, the Supreme Court of Canada (“the Court”) considered the constitutionality of the offence of child luring, including the minimum penalties for the offence and the statutory presumptions created by Parliament.
