Canada Case Law

R v Williams

Court

Nova Scotia Provincial Court

Given the gravity of intimate-partner sexual assault and the primacy of denunciation and deterrence, but having found significant mitigating factors (notably alcohol-use disorder reducing moral culpability, absence of prior violent record, stable community supports and manageable risk), the Court concluded a community-based punitive sanction (a 10-month conditional sentence order, adjusted to account for 11 months remand credit) was fit; concurrent sentencing applied to the sexual assault and assault counts while threats and breach counts were consecutive; ancillary orders (DNA, 10-year SOIRA…

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• Sexual assault
• Assault
• Uttering threats
• Breach of probation
• Conditional sentence order (cso)
• Remand credit

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R. v. Menezes

Court

Court of Appeal for Ontario

The CSO was running during the first detention period (April 8–Oct 11, 2022) because the appellant was effectively detained under s.515(6) and s.742.6(12) restarted the CSO, so no PSC credit for that six months; the CSO was suspended for the period after the breach disposition (Nov 14, 2022–Jan 10, 2023) as the breach judge suspended the CSO until the appellant's release, so the appellant was entitled to enhanced PSC credit for that two months (1.5:1 = three months). The trial judge erred by denying that credit; appeal allowed in part and three months PSC credit granted.

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• Credit for pre‑sentence custody
• Running and suspension of cso
• Statutory interpretation of ss. 742.6, 742.7 and 515(6)
• Double counting of custody credit
• Mitigating credit for harsh detention conditions

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R. v. Shaw

Court

British Columbia Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal granted leave, found the conditional sentence illegal, and varied the sentence to one day in custody plus credit and 18 months' probation.

• Conditional sentence availability
• Drug trafficking sentencing
• Illegal sentence
• S. 742.1 criminal code
• Conditional-sentence-orders
• Drug-trafficking-sentencing

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R. v. Fundal

Court

Supreme Court of British Columbia

The court found a breach of a conditional sentence order, held the supervisor's report and signed witness statements admissible, and imposed 76 days' custody.

• Breach of cso
• Admissibility of supervisor's report
• Curfew breach
• Assault
• Procedural notice and prejudice
• Conditional-sentence-order-breach

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R. v. Kassa

Court

British Columbia Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal allowed the sentence appeal and granted enhanced pre-sentence credit under s. 719(3.1), substituting a 24-month-and-22-day sentence.

• Credit for pre‑sentence custody
• S. 719(3.1) enhanced credit
• Breach of conditional sentence order
• Judicial discretion at sentencing
• Application of r. v. summers
• Pre-sentence-custody-credit

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R. v. Langille

Court

British Columbia Court of Appeal

The court granted leave and partly allowed the sentence appeal, correcting pre-sentence custody credit and setting aside the part of the sentence tied to an assumed CSO balance.

• Pre-sentence custody credit
• Adequacy of reasons for sentence
• Consecutive vs concurrent sentences
• Breach of bail
• Failure to appear
• Suspension and expiry of cso

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R. v. Heidari

Court

Supreme Court of British Columbia

The court sentenced Amir-Ali Heidari to 90 days in jail for breaching his conditional sentence order and extended the order’s duration.

• Breach of conditional sentence order
• Section 742.6 criminal code
• Sentence modification
• Residence condition
• Breach-of-conditional-sentence-order
• Conditional-sentence-orders

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R. v. Laroche

Court

Supreme Court of British Columbia

The court sentenced Mr. Laroche to four months’ imprisonment for breaching a conditional sentence order after he changed residence without permission.

• Breach of conditional sentence order
• Appropriate custodial sentence
• Credit for time served
• Stay of proceedings
• Recording of driving prohibition
• Breach-of-conditional-sentence-order

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R. v. Earhart

Court

Supreme Court of British Columbia

Crown sentence appeal from a conditional sentence order for assault causing bodily harm and break and enter; fresh evidence of breach was admitted and the sentence was varied to custody.

• Assault causing bodily harm
• Breaking and entering
• Conditional sentence
• Admissibility of fresh evidence on appeal
• Community safety predicate
• Fitness of sentence

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R. v. P.A.S.

Court

British Columbia Court of Appeal

The Court of Appeal upheld a 12-month custodial sentence for sexual assault of a 14-year-old, finding no basis for a conditional sentence order.

• Sexual assault on a minor
• Risk assessment
• Denunciation and deterrence
• Abuse of trust
• Conditional sentence preconditions
• Appellate review of sentence

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