Criminal Code, section 145(2)
Failure to attend court
What the law says
- Maximum
- 2 years
- Mandatory minimum
- No mandatory minimum
- Kind of offence
- Other
- Prosecuted
- By indictment or summary conviction
4 cases with this offence
- September 8, 2023R. v. C.M.R.T., 2023 BCSC 1810
- Below the Crown's ask
36 months' imprisonment (concurrent on the drug and firearm counts) plus 15 days consecutive for failing to attend court, less 225 days' credit - April 6, 2023R. v. Nazarek, 2023 BCSC 722
- Below the Crown's ask
- On release at the time
12 years imprisonment (13 reduced by 1 for totality) less 683 days credit; DNA order, lifetime weapons prohibition, CDSA forfeiture - November 30, 2022R. v. Wilson, 2022 NSPC 43
- On release at the time
5 years imprisonment less 6 months remand credit (54 months to serve); $1,500 in fines, driving prohibition, restitution, DNA and s. 109 orders, forfeiture - April 27, 2021R. v. S.P.W., 2021 NSPC 24
- Below the Crown's ask
56 months in prison (s. 151 and s. 152 concurrent; 30 days concurrent for failing to attend court), less 823 days remand credit