Colby Cosh on the Supreme Court's Young Offender Decision

Colby Cosh is right when he says the Supreme Court has held the publicity surrounding a criminal conviction can be considered as punishment and be subject to Charter considerations.

This unexpected ruling may have unintended consequences.

A major part of the Ontario Court of Appeal decision a few weeks ago upholding Christopher's Law (the child sex offender registry) was that Court's holding that potential publicity following conviction was NOT part of a punishment.

The Court of Appeal decision on registry of child sex offenders may now be questionable.

The Supreme Court's desire to protect youth may not work out quite the it planned.

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