Criminal Code, section 268

Aggravated assault

What the law says

Maximum
14 years
Mandatory minimum
No mandatory minimum
Kind of offence
Violent

Indictable only.

Read the statute on the Justice Laws website

64 cases with this offence

  1. July 21, 2022
    R. v. Coaker, 2022 NSSC 201Aggravated assault, Dartmouth. Justice Jamie S. Campbell
    4 years less 1,336 days' remand credit (124 days remaining); s. 109 prohibition, DNA
  2. July 20, 2022
    R. v. Hardiman, 2022 NSSC 198Aggravated assault, Dartmouth. Justice Jamie S. Campbell
    6 years imprisonment less 636 days remand credit (4 years and 94 days remaining); s. 109 prohibition, DNA order
  3. July 20, 2022
    R. v. Crawley, 2022 NSSC 199Aggravated assault, Dartmouth. Justice Jamie S. Campbell
    5 years in custody, less 1,441 days' remand credit (one year and 19 days remaining)
  4. May 30, 2022
    R. v. Hartford, 2022 BCSC 1183Aggravated assault, New Westminster. Justice Ward K. Branch
    • On release at the time
    432 days' credit for time served plus a further 18 months' incarceration, then 3 years' probation
  5. May 5, 2022
    R. v. Mitton, 2022 NSSC 123Aggravated assault, Burnside. Justice Jamie S. Campbell
    6 years' imprisonment, consecutive to the sentence being served
  6. March 11, 2022
    R. v. Clarke-McNeil, 2022 NSSC 63Aggravated assault, Burnside. Justice Jamie S. Campbell
    6 years in prison, less 418 days remand credit
  7. January 20, 2022
    R. v. Horton, 2022 NSSC 13Assault; Aggravated assault; Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose; Resisting or obstructing a peace officer, Halifax. Justice Jamie S. Campbell
    4 years for aggravated assault, consecutive to the sentence being served; 60 days and 30 days concurrent on the other counts
  8. November 19, 2021
    R. v. D.J.M.K., 2021 BCSC 2474Aggravated assault, Chilliwack. Justice Alan M. Ross
    • On release at the time
    Five years' imprisonment, less 391 days' credit for pre-sentence custody
  9. November 15, 2021
    R. v. Armstrong, 2021 BCSC 2377Assault; Assault with a weapon; Aggravated assault; Uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm; Forcible confinement; Break and enter a dwelling-house; Mischief over $5,000; Breach of an undertaking, Comox. Justice Anthony Saunders
    • Below the Crown's ask
    • On release at the time
    8 years in prison less 965 days credit (5 years, 128 days remaining)
  10. November 4, 2021
    R. v. Braun, 2021 BCSC 2379Aggravated assault, Gibsons. Justice Shelley C. Fitzpatrick
    Two years' incarceration, plus a $9,208.33 restitution order
  11. September 2, 2021
    R. v. Adamec, 2021 BCSC 1832Aggravated assault, Vancouver. Justice Carla L. Forth
    • Below the Crown's ask
    5 years and 4 months in prison, less 27 days credit
  12. July 16, 2021
    R. v. Cantrill, 2021 BCSC 1652Aggravated assault; Kidnapping; Extortion; Overcoming resistance to commission of offence (attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle), Chilliwack. Justice Ward K. Branch
    10 years on kidnapping; 5 years extortion, 4 years overcoming resistance and 3 years aggravated assault concurrent
  13. July 7, 2021
    R. v. G.B.K., 2021 BCSC 1391Second degree murder; Aggravated assault, Abbotsford. Justice Heather J. Holmes
    • 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 order
  14. July 6, 2021
    R. v. Shand, 2021 NSSC 263Aggravated assault, Dartmouth. Justice Denise M. Boudreau
    • Below the Crown's ask
    • No jail for a violent offence
    Suspended sentence with 36 months probation

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