Crown fires back at judges’ ‘troubling’ avoidance of victim fine surcharge

[guest]

Judges who refused to impose the mandatory victim surcharge were acting illegally and their personal opinions on the controversial fee are “irrelevant and unhelpful,” according to the provincial Crown attorney’s office. That was the position laid out by an Ottawa prosecutor in court documents filed Friday seeking to overturn four “troubling” decisions of Ottawa judges who either flat-out refused to apply the mandatory surcharge, found it to be an unconstitutional tax or gave an offender 60 years to pay the $100 charge.

查看原文...