The Calcutta High Court has temporarily suspended the life sentence of Swapan Haldar, convicted of raping a minor, due to prolonged appeal delays. Haldar, in custody for over ten years, received ...

A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has found that Criminal Code provisions prohibiting conditional sentences for certain offences did not infringe an Indigenous woman’s equality rights, because ...

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time. Barber was found guilty of mischief and counselling ...

Pat King, a key organizer of the 2022 convoy protest in downtown Ottawa, got a three-month conditional sentence on Wednesday after the judge accounted for time already served in jail. In November, ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed ...

The Supreme Court of Canada Friday ruled 5-4 that banning conditional sentences for some offenses is constitutional. The case was brought by 20-year-old Cheyenne Sharma, who was arrested in a Toronto ...