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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 2 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 [email protected] with any comments. You can also DM me at @CrimLawNotebook on X/Twitter for article or topic requests. Want to help keep the Criminal Law Notebook free? Click here to make a donation. Vous préférez une version française? Browse over 1397 articles General Topics The articles are divided into five core categories: Criminal law, Evidence, Search and Seizure, Procedure and Practice, and Sentencing 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 | List of Bilingual Articles

News January 14, 2025 Several small updates to the site. Platform upgrade allows font, margin and background colour changes. I have also added a feedback form at the bottom of every page for ease of flagging error or omissions. August 8, 2024 Pour ceux d'entre vous qui travaillent dans le système de justice pénale en utilisant la langue française. Il existe maintenant une traduction française (expérimentale) du site Web : http://carnetdroitpenal.ca July 7 to 14, 2024 I have migrated the site to a new server. It has caused some problems that I believe are now finally all resolved. Please be patient if anything more comes up in the next few days. March 1, 2024 Supreme Court of Canada in R v Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6 (CanLII), per Martin J (5:4) finds that IP addresses are protected by a reasonable expectation of privacy and its seizure by police can be protected under s. 8 of the Charter. 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. Older news... or X/Twitter External Links Youtube Channel CanLII.org and OpenParliament.ca primarydocuments.ca Henry Waldock's Legal Topics for Canadian Police workday calculator Altantic Police Academy News Law The Criminal Law Ebook (CanLII) Criminal Code criminel (open source annotations) SCC arguments (audio) Other links...

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