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No automatic right of appeal for convicted youth where there is a dissent: SCC

Friday, May 07, 2021 @ 4:33 PM | By Ian Burns

A divided Supreme Court has ruled that a section of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) which denies an automatic right of appeal for young people in criminal cases passes constitutional...