Criminal Code, section 268
Aggravated assault
What the law says
- Maximum
- 14 years
- Mandatory minimum
- No mandatory minimum
- Kind of offence
- Violent
Indictable only.
64 cases with this offence
- July 21, 20224 years less 1,336 days' remand credit (124 days remaining); s. 109 prohibition, DNA
- July 20, 20226 years imprisonment less 636 days remand credit (4 years and 94 days remaining); s. 109 prohibition, DNA order
- July 20, 20225 years in custody, less 1,441 days' remand credit (one year and 19 days remaining)
- May 30, 2022R. v. Hartford, 2022 BCSC 1183
- On release at the time
432 days' credit for time served plus a further 18 months' incarceration, then 3 years' probation - May 5, 20226 years' imprisonment, consecutive to the sentence being served
- March 11, 20226 years in prison, less 418 days remand credit
- January 20, 20224 years for aggravated assault, consecutive to the sentence being served; 60 days and 30 days concurrent on the other counts
- November 19, 2021R. v. D.J.M.K., 2021 BCSC 2474
- On release at the time
Five years' imprisonment, less 391 days' credit for pre-sentence custody - November 15, 2021R. v. Armstrong, 2021 BCSC 2377
- Below the Crown's ask
- On release at the time
8 years in prison less 965 days credit (5 years, 128 days remaining) - November 4, 2021Two years' incarceration, plus a $9,208.33 restitution order
- September 2, 2021R. v. Adamec, 2021 BCSC 1832
- Below the Crown's ask
5 years and 4 months in prison, less 27 days credit - July 16, 202110 years on kidnapping; 5 years extortion, 4 years overcoming resistance and 3 years aggravated assault concurrent
- July 7, 2021R. v. G.B.K., 2021 BCSC 1391
- Below the Crown's ask
Life imprisonment, no parole for 16 years (second degree murder); 7 years concurrent (aggravated assault), fully offset by pre-sentence credit; lifetime s. 109 prohibition, DNA order, non-communication orderLife sentence - July 6, 2021R. v. Shand, 2021 NSSC 263
- Below the Crown's ask
- No jail for a violent offence
Suspended sentence with 36 months probation
Judges who sentenced this offence
- The Honourable Justice Jamie S. Campbell
- The Honourable Justice Heather J. Holmes
- The Honourable Justice Alan M. Ross
- The Honourable Justice Anthony Saunders
- The Honourable Justice Ardith Walkem
- The Honourable Justice Carla L. Forth
- The Honourable Justice Diane Rowe
- The Honourable Justice Gary P. Weatherill
- The Honourable Justice Geoffrey B. Gomery
- The Honourable Justice Patrick J. Duncan
- The Honourable Justice Shelley C. Fitzpatrick
- The Honourable Justice Ward K. Branch
- The Honourable Judge A. Peter Ross
- The Honourable Justice Amy D. Francis
- The Honourable Justice Andrew P. A. Mayer
- The Honourable Justice Bradford F. Smith
- The Honourable Justice D. Timothy Gabriel
- The Honourable Justice David K. Jones
- The Honourable Justice Denise M. Boudreau
- The Honourable Justice Elin Sigurdson
- The Honourable Justice Elizabeth McDonald
- The Honourable Justice F. Matthew Kirchner
- The Honourable Justice Frank P. Hoskins
- The Honourable Justice Gareth Morley
- The Honourable Justice Geoffrey R. J. Gaul
- The Honourable Justice Jan Brongers
- The Honourable Justice Jasvinder S. Basran
- The Honourable Justice John A. Keith
- The Honourable Justice John Gibb-Carsley
- The Honourable Justice Joshua M. Arnold