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Corrections and conditional release act 2025 FC 99

Brick v. Canada (Attorney General)

Judicial review dismissed. The Federal Court upheld a detention decision under the CCRA, found the referral timely, and held disclosure was procedurally fair.

  • Statutory interpretation
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Procedural fairness
  • Detention pending statutory release
  • Standard of review
  • Jurisdiction
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Administrative law 2016 FC 965

Nome v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court allowed judicial review, quashed a corrections disciplinary conviction, ordered record corrections, lifted part of an interim preservation order, and awarded $100 costs.

  • Disciplinary conviction under s.400(f)
  • Destruction/preservation of evidence
  • Access to documents
  • Costs
  • Judicial-review
  • Corrections-and-conditional-release-act
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Corrections and conditional release act 2012 FC 1226

Wilson v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed Mr. Wilson’s judicial review challenge to a grievance remedy order about an escorted temporary absence request, finding remittal for reconsideration was reasonable.

  • Escorted temporary absence
  • Grievance remedy
  • Duty to act fairly
  • Remittal for reconsideration
  • Mootness
  • Administrative-law
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Corrections and conditional release act 2012 FC 894

Hurdle v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed Steve Hurdle’s judicial review as premature because he had not exhausted the offender complaints and grievance process.

  • Exhaustion of administrative remedies
  • Delegation of supervisory powers
  • Long-term supervision order
  • Reasonableness review
  • Jurisdiction of national parole board
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law 2012 FCA 116

Gaudreau v. Canada (Attorney General)

Subsection 134.1(3) requires the Board to consider and determine the duration of long-term supervision conditions; a decision template’s standard clause is insufficient proof of such consideration on its own, but where the Board’s reasons, read as a whole, show it considered duration the decision is lawful; accordingly the appeals are dismissed.

  • Long-term supervision conditions
  • Duration of conditions
  • Judicial review
  • Adequacy of reasons
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Corrections and conditional release act 2011 FC 560

Boissel v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court set aside a disciplinary conviction for failing to provide a urine sample, holding that the chairperson misapplied the burden of proof on lawful excuse.

  • Disciplinary proceedings
  • Burden of proof
  • Lawful excuse defence
  • Procedural fairness
  • Standard of review
  • Burden-of-proof
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Criminal law 2008 BCCA 185

R. v. Catania

The Court of Appeal extended time to appeal, allowed the appeal, and quashed a probation order after consecutive sentences were treated as one continuous sentence under s. 139(1).

  • Legality of probation order following consecutive sentences
  • Interpretation of s.139(1) of the corrections and conditional release act
  • Conditional sentence breach
  • Extension of time to appeal
  • Sentencing
  • Probation
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Corrections and conditional release act 2007 NSSC 11

Finck v. Canada (National Parole Board)

The applicant failed to prove that the Parole Board had access to or relied upon information not shared with her or that procedural fairness or statutory disclosure obligations under ss.101 and 141 were breached; therefore her detention was not shown to be unlawful and the habeas corpus application is dismissed.

  • Procedural fairness
  • Disclosure of evidence
  • Lawfulness of detention
  • Judicial review
  • Statutory interpretation
  • Right to information
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Criminal law 2005 BCCA 587

R. v. Lamb

The Court of Appeal for British Columbia extended time to appeal, granted leave, and quashed an illegal probation order attached to a sentence over two years.

  • Probation order
  • Statutory jurisdiction
  • S.731(b) criminal code
  • S.139 corrections and conditional release act
  • Extension of time
  • Leave to appeal
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Corrections and conditional release act 2003 FCT 452

Faucher v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed judicial review of a prison disciplinary conviction, holding the chairperson need only decide guilt and not review the charge-laying decision.

  • Disciplinary proceedings
  • Jurisdiction to lay charges
  • Grievance procedure
  • Judicial review
  • Standard of proof
  • Judicial-review
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