LCJC - Standing Committee

Legal and Constitutional Affairs

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Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue 35 - Sixteenth Report of the Committee

THURSDAY, November 7, 1996

The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to present its

SIXTEENTH REPORT

Your Committee, to which was referred Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (plea bargaining), has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Thursday, May 2, 1996, examined the said Bill and now reports as follows:

Your committee recommends that this Bill be not proceeded with further in the Senate for the following reason:

This recommendation is based on your committee's concern that Bill S-3 could infringe legal rights protected by section 11(h) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by allowing an accused to be punished more than once for the same offence.

Respectfully submitted,

SHARON CARSTAIRS

Chair