Disobeying a Statute or Court Order (Sentencing Cases)

Offence Wording

Disobeying order of court

127 (1) Every one who, without lawful excuse, disobeys a lawful order made by a court of justice or by a person or body of persons authorized by any Act to make or give the order, other than an order for the payment of money, is, unless a punishment or other mode of proceeding is expressly provided by law, guilty of

(a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years;
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.

[omitted (2)]
R.S., 1985, c. C-46, s. 127; R.S., 1985, c. 27 (1st Supp.), s. 185(F); 2005, c. 32, s. 1.

CCC (CanLII), (DOJ)


Note up: 127(1)


Case Digests

Case Name Prv. Crt. Sentence Summary
R v Yu, 2022 BCPC 220 (CanLII), per Challenger J BC   PC
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Keywords: None
Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC v. Mivasair,
2019 BCCA 156 (CanLII), per Butler JA
BC   CA
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Keywords: None

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