Bill C-519 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail for serious personal injury offence)

This bill is from the 39th Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in September 2008.

Sponsor

Dave Batters Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Second reading (House), as of April 9, 2008
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

The purpose of this enactment is to ensure that a person accused of committing a serious personal injury offence is not granted bail as a result of an agreement between the prosecutor and defence counsel without the judge being fully informed of all of the evidence in the possession of the prosecution that is relevant to the release of the accused, including all relevant information respecting the alleged offence and its circumstances.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-519s:

C-519 (2013) An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (motor vehicle fuel)

C-519 (2010) An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act (biweekly payment of benefits)

C-519 (2004) An Act to amend the Farm Income Protection Act (crop damage by gophers)

Criminal CodeRoutine Proceedings

March 3rd, 2008 / 3:20 p.m.

Conservative

Dave Batters Conservative Palliser, SK

moved for leave to introduce Bill C-519, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail for serious personal injury offence).

Mr. Speaker, I am honoured to present my private member's bill entitled, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (bail for serious personal injury offence). I will refer to this bill as Michelle's law.

The bill was inspired by the terrible circumstances surrounding the murder of Michelle Lenius in 2003. Michelle was my friend and my wife's friend and co-worker. Michelle's ex-husband was convicted of her murder. Unfortunately, this man should not have been out on bail when he killed Michelle. This tragic case was one of the main reasons I entered federal politics.

The passage of this bill would give our hard-working Crown prosecutors another tool to help them in their difficult jobs. This bill would provide that for those accused of a serious personal injury offence in the Criminal Code, before a judge rules on that person's release, the Crown prosecutor shall present the judge with the prosecution's evidence relevant to the release of the accused.

I ask all members to support Michelle's law.

(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)