{"id":9004,"date":"2020-12-08T21:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/?post_type=jfcy-in-the-courts&#038;p=9004"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T19:54:47","slug":"cp-v-hmq","status":"publish","type":"jfcy-in-the-courts","link":"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/en\/cases-decisions\/cp-v-hmq\/","title":{"rendered":"CP v Her Majesty the Queen [YCJA, right of appeal to SCC]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JFCY intervened in this appeal about the requirement under the Youth Criminal Justice Act requiring a young person to &#8220;seek leave to appeal&#8221; on a finding of guilt to the Supreme Court of Canada where an adult would have an &#8220;automatic right to appeal&#8221;. Appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada are recognized as an important safeguard against wrongful findings of guilt.<\/p>\n<p>JFCY\u2019s submissions focused on section 7 (life, liberty and security of the person) and section 15 (age discrimination) of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms; addressing the harms to young person\u2019s dignity and practical harms to a young person of the unequal ability to challenge a potentially wrongful finding of guilt to Canada\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/JFCYfactum-CP.pdf\"><strong>JFCY factum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/decisions.scc-csc.ca\/scc-csc\/scc-csc\/en\/item\/18881\/index.do?q=cp\">Supreme Court of Canada decision<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JFCY intervened in this appeal about the requirement under the Youth Criminal Justice Act requiring a young person to &#8220;seek&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-9004","jfcy-in-the-courts","type-jfcy-in-the-courts","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jfcy-in-the-courts\/9004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jfcy-in-the-courts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jfcy-in-the-courts"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jfcy-in-the-courts\/9004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jfcy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}