The supreme court of Canada and the offender’s right to be transferred to serve his sentence in Canada: interpreting the international transfer of offenders act in light of Canada’s national and international human rights obligations

In September 2013 in the case of Divito v Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) the Supreme Court of Canada dealt with the issue of whether section 6(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Charter, which grants Canadians the right to enter Canada was violated in a case wh...

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Main Author: Mujuzi Jamil Ddamulira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2013-12-01
Series:Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/bjlp-2013-0013