WALL STREET JOURNAL: «John Liu Files Federal Lawsuit
Against Campaign Finance Board» - 3/12/2014 EXCERPT — According to the lawsuit, which Mr. Liu announced at a news conference on Wednesday, the board
delivered his campaign a «death
sentence» when it decided in August not to give him any matching funds.
In a pair of decisions
delivered this morning, R. v. Summers, 2014 SCC 26, and a companion case, R. v. Carvery, 2014 SCC 27, the Supreme Court has endorsed the trial courts» practice of routinely crediting time spent by accused persons before their
sentencing on a more than one - to - one basis against the total duration of their sentence, the Truth in Sentencing Act, enacted by Parliament in 2009, notwit
sentencing on a more than one - to - one basis
against the total duration of their
sentence, the Truth in
Sentencing Act, enacted by Parliament in 2009, notwit
Sentencing Act, enacted by Parliament in 2009, notwithstanding.