Latest Criminal Law News
Judge finds polygamy law constitutional, except for children who marry into
He found that it is constitutionally sound, except as it applied to children between 12 and 18 who marry into polygamy or enter into a conjugal union with more than one person at the same time. Children between 12 and 18 can't be criminally charged.
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:25P
BC Supreme Court upholds ban on polygamy
BC Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman issued his decision Wednesday, saying Canada's anti-polygamy law is valid because the harms that polygamy can inflict on women and children outweigh the benefit of protecting religious freedom.
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:23P
Religious freedom doesn't protect polygamy, BC court says in landmark case
VANCOUVER - The harms that polygamy inflicts on women and children outweigh any claims to religious freedom, a BC judge said Wednesday in a landmark case that is almost certainly destined for the Supreme Court of Canada. Chief Justice Robert Bauman of
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:23P
BC Supreme Court upholds polygamy law
In his ruling, Bauman said the law violates the religious freedom of fundamentalist Mormons, but the harm against women and children outweighs that concern. Bauman reserved judgment on the landmark case in April, after hearing 42 days of legal
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:23P
Judge upholds law that polygamy has no place in Canada
Children play in the community of Lister, in Bountiful, where Winston Blackmore's breakaway Mormon sect is centred. In a 335-page ruling, the BC Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Canada's
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:22P
Polygamy ban should be upheld, BC judge rules in landmark decision
In his ruling, Judge Bauman noted that the Criminal Code restriction against polygamy infringes some sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including the rights to fundamental justice for children who might be caught up in a polygamy
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:21P
BC court upholds polygamy law
Allegations of abuse and child brides in Bountiful dominated a trial that ended in April, with the federal and provincial governments arguing polygamy is always harmful and must be outlawed. Critics of the law, including Bountiful residents,
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:20P
BC Supreme Court rules polygamy ban is constitutional, but flawed
He found that polygamy is constitutionally sound, except as it applied to for children between 12 and 18 who marry into polygamy or enter into a conjugal union with more than one person at the same time. The judge found the law prohibiting polygamy is
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:19P
Canada's polygamy laws upheld by BC's top court
This includes harm to women, to children, to society and to the institution of monogamous marriage.” The opinion follows 42-days of legal arguments from a wide variety of groups interested in the constitutionality of Section 293 of the criminal code.
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:16P
Polygamy ban should be upheld, judge rules in landmark decision
In his ruling, Judge Bauman noted that the Criminal Code restriction against polygamy infringes some sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including the rights to fundamental justice for children who might be caught up in a polygamy
Updated: 11/23/2011 01:15P
Primary Categories