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<div style="font-size:162%;  border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to <br>The Criminal Law Notebook,</div>
<div style="font-size:162%;  border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to <br>The Criminal Law Notebook,</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%; overflow:auto; word-wrap: break-word;">a free resource of Canadian criminal law written by Peter Dostal.</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%; overflow:auto; word-wrap: break-word;">a free resource of Canadian criminal law written by Peter Dostal.</div>
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This site reviews a variety of topics in Canadian criminal law. It is intended to be used as a reference for those seeking to understand technical elements of the law better. It will be particularly useful to practitioners, police officers and law students who need a convenient way to look up legislation, principles, and case law. Citations include links to CanLII whenever possible. The reader is assumed to have prior knowledge of criminal law.
This site reviews a variety of topics in Canadian criminal law. It is intended to be used as a reference for those seeking to understand technical elements of the law better. It will be particularly useful to practitioners, police officers and law students who need a convenient way to look up legislation, principles, and case law. Citations include links to CanLII whenever possible. The reader is assumed to have prior knowledge of criminal law.


Recently the site has become a leading source of free online information for criminal law with more than 1.5 million page views each year.
The site has become a leading source of free online information for criminal law with more than 1.5 million pageviews each year.


To learn more about this project, read the [[Criminal Law Notebook:About|About The Criminal Law Notebook]] page.
To learn more about this project, read the [[Criminal Law Notebook:About|About The Criminal Law Notebook]] page.


Please feel free to contact the author, Peter Dostal, LLB, at peter.dostal@gmail.com with any comments. <!--You can also make requests for what you would like to see covered in more detail by posting anonymously on the [http://criminalnotebook.ca/forum/index.php feedback page], but please, no posting about the circumstance of your active cases.--> <!--If there are specific errors in an article you can comment in the "Discussion" tab. I REMOVED THIS BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF WEBSITE FEB 25, 2018-->
Please feel free to contact the author, Peter Dostal, LLB, at peter.dostal@gmail.com with any comments. <!--You can also make requests for what you would like to see covered in more detail by posting anonymously on the [http://criminalnotebook.ca/forum/index.php feedback page], but please, no posting about the circumstance of your active cases.--> <!--If there are specific errors in an article you can comment in the "Discussion" tab. I REMOVED THIS BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF WEBSITE FEB 25, 2018-->
You can also DM me at [https://twitter.com/CrimLawNotebook @CrimLawNotebook] on Twitter for article or topic requests.


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[[List of Criminal Code Amendments]] | [[Table of Concordance (Criminal Code)|Criminal Code Table of Concordance]] |  [[Offences by Penalty]] | [[List of Offences by Category|Offences by Category]] | [[Criminal Code and Related Definitions|Definitions]] | [[List of Criminal Code Forms|Criminal Code Forms]] | [[Precedents, Court Forms and Checklists]] | [[Rules of Court]] | [[Glossary]] | [[Crime Statistics]] | [[Court Composition]]
[[List of Criminal Code Amendments]] | [[Table of Concordance (Criminal Code)|Criminal Code Table of Concordance]] |  [[Offences by Penalty]] | [[List of Offences by Category|Offences by Category]] | [[Criminal Code and Related Definitions|Definitions]] | [[List of Criminal Code Forms|Criminal Code Forms]] | [[Precedents, Court Forms and Checklists]] | [[Rules of Court]] | [[Glossary]] | [[Crime Statistics]] | [[Court Membership]]
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<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">June 30, 2022</div>
{{Recent News}}
Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|JJ|jq1d8|2022 SCC 28 (CanLII)}}{{perSCC|Wagner CJ and Moldaver J}} upholds the constitutionality of the statutory protections to [[Admission of Records for Sexual Offences|complainants' personal information]] found in s. 278.92 to 278.94 of the Code.
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">June 23, 2022</div>
Amendments coming into force rewriting s. 33.1 of the Code concerning the [[Prohibition on Intoxication Defences (Unconstitutional)|extreme intoxication defence for certain violent offences]].
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 27, 2022</div>
Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|Bissonnette|jpf5d|2022 SCC 23 (CanLII)}}{{perSCC|Wagner CJ}} declares s. 745.51 of the Code unconstitutional, removing the statutory requirement that the periods of parole ineligibility for multiple murders be served consecutively.
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 13, 2022</div>
Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|Sullivan|jp64b|2022 SCC 19}}{{perSCC|Kasirer J}} declares s. 33.1 of the Code unconstitutional, removing the statutory prohibition against [[Prohibition on Intoxication Defences (Unconstitutional)|self-induced intoxication defences]] for certain offences.
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">January 16, 2022</div>
Amendments creating a new offences relating to [[Intimidation Impeding Health Services (Offence)|impeding health care services]] came into force.
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">January 7, 2022</div>
Amendments creating new offences relating to [[Conversion Therapy (Offence)|conversion therapy]] came into force.
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 6, 2021</div>
An amendment, [[Sexual_Offences#Reasons_for_Judgement|adding s. 278.98 to the ''Criminal Code'']], came into force.
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">April 8, 2021</div>
''Feature Update'': Look up offences quickly using the "Quick Access" link on the Navigation sidebar.
 
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 8, 2020</div>
''Feature Update'': Quotations from most legislation now include an option to note up the provision on CanLII.


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* [http://canliiconnects.org/ Canliiconnects.org]  
* [http://canliiconnects.org/ Canliiconnects.org]  
* [http://henrywaldock.ca/ Henry Waldock's Legal Topics for Canadian Police]
* [http://henrywaldock.ca/ Henry Waldock's Legal Topics for Canadian Police]
* [https://apanewslaw.wordpress.com/ Altantic Police Academy News Law]
* [https://henrywaldock.ca/TimeServed.html Time served calculator]
* [https://www.timeanddate.com/date/workdays.html workday calculator]
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* [https://www.jibc.ca/advanced-search?search=10-8+&type=documents&field_area_of_study=All&field_program_type=All&field_location=All 10-8 Justice Institute of BC Newsletter]  
* [http://www.duhaime.org/LegalResources/CriminalLaw.aspx Duhaime On Criminal Law]
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* [https://twitter.com/CrimLawNotebook Criminal Law Notebook on Twitter]
* [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/index.html DOJ Research Reports on Criminal Justice System]
* [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/index.html DOJ Research Reports on Criminal Justice System]
* [https://www.cjc-ccm.gc.ca/cmslib/Committee/JTAC/JTAC-Consolidation-of-Standards-2009-04-02-E.pdf The Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions]
* [https://www.cjc-ccm.gc.ca/cmslib/Committee/JTAC/JTAC-Consolidation-of-Standards-2009-04-02-E.pdf The Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions]
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Welcome to
The Criminal Law Notebook,
a free resource of Canadian criminal law written by Peter Dostal.
1397 articles

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The Criminal Law Notebook

This site reviews a variety of topics in Canadian criminal law. It is intended to be used as a reference for those seeking to understand technical elements of the law better. It will be particularly useful to practitioners, police officers and law students who need a convenient way to look up legislation, principles, and case law. Citations include links to CanLII whenever possible. The reader is assumed to have prior knowledge of criminal law.

The site has become a leading source of free online information for criminal law with more than 1.5 million pageviews each year.

To learn more about this project, read the About The Criminal Law Notebook page.

Please feel free to contact the author, Peter Dostal, LLB, at peter.dostal@gmail.com with any comments. You can also DM me at @CrimLawNotebook on Twitter for article or topic requests.

Want to help keep the Criminal Law Notebook free? Click here to make a donation.

Browse over 1397 articles

The articles are divided into five core categories:

Case Digests

You can also browse by case digest topic.

Other Articles

List of Criminal Code Amendments | Criminal Code Table of Concordance | Offences by Penalty | Offences by Category | Definitions | Criminal Code Forms | Precedents, Court Forms and Checklists | Rules of Court | Glossary | Crime Statistics | Court Membership

Full Content by Volume
Vol 1 - Criminal Law (A to E) Vol 1.1 - Offence Profiles (A to J) Vol 8 - Court Membership
Vol 2 - Evidence (A to B) Vol 3 - Search and Seizure (A to E)
Vol 4 - Procedure (A to E) Vol 5 - Sentencing
Vol 6 - Case Digests (A to C) Vol 7 - Reference Materials

News

January 4, 2024

Bill C-48, amending various bail provisions, came into force.

December 15, 2023

Amendments come into force that modify various parts of the Code concerning firearms.

October 26, 2023

Amendments come into force that change publication ban rules and update SOIRA provisions in light of R v Ndhlovu, 2022 SCC 38.

June 20, 2023

Amendments come into force that create an authorization scheme to permit the government to deliver property and services to the benefit of terrorist groups.

April 1, 2023

The name of the inferior court of Alberta changes from Provincial Court of Alberta to Alberta Court of Justice. [1]

January 14, 2023

Bill S-4 amending various provisions relating to COVID, including the use of remote proceedings, came into force.

January 1, 2023

The Criminal Law Notebook is among several winners of the 2022 Clawbies!


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