Sentences with phrase «hybrid offences which»
Criminal offences under Canada's criminal code are divided into three kinds: indictable offences which are the more serious offences and which carry longer terms of imprisonment, summary convictions which are the less serious offences usually punishable by less than 2 years imprisonment and hybrid offences which can be prosecuted as either indictable or summary.
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Some offences that had been classified as hybrid were reclassified as strictly summary, which meant Provincial Court trials for all of them.
The power to choose under which class a hybrid offence will be tried rests with the Crown.