Virtual Hearing

Procedural Safeguards

Procedural safeguards are those rights that the offender has under the law; they include, the right:

• to review all the information that will be used in the decision-making process.
• to make representations through a formal hearing or by written representations.
• to an assistant.
• to an interpreter if the offender does not speak English or French.
• to know the reasons for a decision.
• to a fair and impartial hearing.
• to a hearing in the official language of his choice.