What is the standard of review for a sentence?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Ali, 2009 ABCA 120 (CanLII):
The standard of review for fitness of a sentence as set forth in R v. Shropshire, 1995 CanLII 47 (SCC), [1995] 4 S.C.R. 227, does not permit interference with a sentence, unless it is clearly unreasonable, wrong principles were applied, or the sentence imposed falls outside the acceptable range of sentences, being inordinately high or inordinately low. Analysis
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