Jacques Gallant

“Prolonged, violent and degrading sexual assaults involving multiple offenders demand significant and exemplary custodial sentences,” Court of Appeal Justice Mary Lou Benotto wrote on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel.

“It is the violation of personal integrity and the negating of the victims’ right of self-determination that makes these offences serious,” the judge said.

“I’m not sure I’ve seen such blatant examples of patronage recently,” a University of Waterloo political science professor told the Star.

Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Christopher Husbands’ appeal to have his life sentence set aside and replaced by a 15-year prison term.

“There are no fresh ideas, there are no new ideas, we’re seeing a rehashing of old, discredited tough-on-crime ideas.”

“The suggestion that there be a political litmus test for judicial appointment would return the court to practices that we would have thought had disappeared years ago,” three former Ontario

Rico Harvey told the jury Wednesday he was so clouded by rage and fear that the incident “really felt like a dream.”

The Law Society said Thursday it will seek a judicial review from the Divisional Court and request a stay of the decision, which would continue to prevent the man —

Lawyer Gary McCallum made the comments in a filing on behalf of an Ontario children’s aid society, which was being sued over the alleged historical abuse of a teen girl

The case is the latest in a string of serious criminal matters to crumble in Toronto’s Superior Court over delays one judge has described as an “embarrassment to the administration