🇨🇦 Canada 14h ago · Jamie Sarkonak

Jamie Sarkonak: Supreme Court downplays ‘non-Indigenous legal traditions’ to enshrine sentencing circles

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On Friday, in deciding the appeal of a part-Mi'kmaq man who brutally beat his Mi'kmaq girlfriend in the street, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada declared that judges are now required to hear out what sentencing circles have to say in the sentencing of an Indigenous offender. Read More

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