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Compensation for Wrongful Convictions: A Study towards an Effective Regime of Tort Liability

How would you feel if after having spent many years incarcerated for a crime that you did not commit and when finally you are released to a broken life where there is nobody to respond effectively to all the damages that you have and that you will continue to endure due to an unfortunate miscarriage of justice?
In Canada, compensation for wrongful convictions is a legal issue which has yet to find a solution for those who the government has denied to pay compensation for and the damages such wrongful conviction brought to their lives.
This thesis will analyze the legal problem of compensation for wrongful convictions in Canada from a tort law perspective and will present an alternative to the existing regime to serve justice to those who have been victims of miscarriages of justice.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/33451
Date22 November 2012
CreatorsMijares, Laura Patricia
ContributorsYoon, Albert
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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