Sentences with phrase «offences at their bail hearings»

Not exact matches

Being charged with a criminal offence always leaves an individual vulnerable to pre-trial custody and at the mercy of police officers who have the discretion to release or detain them pending a bail hearing.

Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include judicial ethics; interpreters; delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators of lethality at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye - witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues at trials of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application of Gladue principles; mistrials and bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues; domestic violence issues; orders for examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.

Section 457.3 (1)(b) of the Criminal Code which prohibits the adduction of evidence from the accused as to the offence charged at the bail hearing by implication must prohibit the subsequent admissibility of evidence given contrary to its terms.

Bill C - 75 also introduces a reverse onus imposed at the bail hearing of an accused charged with an offence involving intimate partner violence and repeat abusers (rather than placing the onus on the Crown to make a case for keeping the accused incarcerated).