Document #1211383
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the requested subject is
contained in the Response to Information Request TTO14540 of 18
June 1993 and its attachments, available at your regional
Documentation Centre.
In addition, please find attached media
reports on sentences handed down by judges in cases of violence
against women and on the attitudes of certain judicial officials
toward sentencing in such cases.
It is important to note that cases tried
under the Sexual Offenses Act are heard in camera, and only in the
event of a guilty verdict are the trial proceedings made public
(CAFRA 28-30 Jan. 1991, 3).
Information on whether protection orders
are being enforced by the police could not be found among the
sources currently available to the DIRB.
Additional and/or corroborative information
on the requested subject could not be found among the sources
currently available to the DIRB.
Caribbean Association for Feminist
Research and Action (CAFRA), St. Augustine. 28-30 January 1991.
"Report on the Regional Meeting on Women, Violence and the Law."
St. Augustine: CAFRA.
Express [Port of Spain]. 11 April
1992. "Women Criticize Judge."
Sunday Express [Port of Spain].
31 May 1992. Donna Yawching. "Judging the Judges."
_____. 19 April 1992. Omatie Lyder. "Are
We Going Against World Trends on Rape?"
Trinidad Guardian [Port of
Spain]. 16 April 1992. Gillian Lucky. "On the Sentencing of
Rapists."
_____. 11 April 1992. "More Women's
Groups Criticize Justice Ibrahim."
_____. 10 April 1992. Lisa
Busby-Montenegro. "Women's Groups Rap Ibrahim on Rape Talk."
_____. 10 April 1992. "Dealing with
Rapists."
_____. 18 July 1991. "Rape of
Justice?"