COMMENT: Victim Impact Statements at Sentencing: The Relevance of Ancillary Harm.

The authors described victim impact statements (VIS) involved in a legal no man's land wherein the attributed relevance and weight is subject to divided jurisprudence. Noted by the authors upon reflecting the case, R. c. Cook, victim impact statements may put an end to the concept and legal limbo as the case affirms the use of the impact statements as an aggravating factor on sentence. Moreover, the judgment gives rise to the undoubted impact on VIS as a form of evidence.