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Welcome to
The Criminal Law Notebook,

a free resource of Canadian criminal law written
by Peter Dostal.

1397 articles

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 [email protected] 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.

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Case Digests

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News

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 Twitter

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There is no guarantee whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness, or currency of the information provided in this website.

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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.
+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.
-Please feel free to contact the author, Peter Dostal, LLB, at [email protected] 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/feedback/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 of the article. I REMOVED THIS BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF WEBSITE FEB 25, 2018-->
+Please feel free to contact the author, Peter Dostal, LLB, at [email protected] 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.
-If you are interested in helping to keep the website up and free to everyone, consider [https://www.gofundme.com/support-the-criminal-notebook making a donation] to help cover the costs of running this website.
+Want to help keep the Criminal Law Notebook free? [[Criminal_Law_Notebook:Donate|Click here]] to make a donation.
+Vous préférez [https://carnetdroitpenal.ca/fr/ une version française?]
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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 Penalty]] | [[Criminal Code and Related Definitions|Definitions]] | [[Criminal Code Forms]] | [[Precedents, Court Forms and Checklists]] | [[Rules of Court]]
+[[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;">January 1, 2018</div>
+{{Recent News}}
-Happy 2018, everyone! Thanks too to those who have provided feedback and support.
-<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">December 8, 2017</div>
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-Supreme Court of Canada releases R v Marakah, [http://canlii.ca/t/hp63v 2017 SCC 59] (CanLII) extending privacy rights to communications when found on a recipient's electronic device.
-<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">October 8, 2017</div>
-Search results now sourced by Google, making for much easier access to relevant articles.
-<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">June 14, 2017</div>
-Senate Releases their report, "[https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/421/LCJC/reports/CourtDelaysStudyInterimReport_e.pdf Justice Delayed is Justice Denied]" on court delays in criminal matters.
-<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">April 20, 2017</div>
-The comment function in the "Discussion" tab of each article is now available for reporting errors. Unrelated postings will be deleted.
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+* [https://www.youtube.com/@criminalnotebook Youtube Channel]
 * [http://canlii.org/ CanLII.org] and [http://www.openparliament.ca/ OpenParliament.ca]
-* [http://canliiconnects.org/ Canliiconnects.org]
+* [https://primarydocuments.ca/ primarydocuments.ca]
 * [http://henrywaldock.ca/ Henry Waldock's Legal Topics for Canadian Police]
+* [https://www.timeanddate.com/date/workdays.html workday calculator]
 * [https://apanewslaw.wordpress.com/ Altantic Police Academy News Law]
-* [http://www.jibc.ca/programs-courses/schools-departments/school-criminal-justice-security/police-academy/resources/10-8-newsletter 10-8 Justice Institute of BC Newsletter]
+* [https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/187469/ The Criminal Law Ebook (CanLII)]
-* [http://www.duhaime.org/LegalResources/CriminalLaw.aspx Duhaime On Criminal Law]
+* [https://criminalcodecriminel.ca/code-index Criminal Code criminel (open source annotations)]
-* [https://twitter.com/CrimLawNotebook Criminal Law Notebook on Twitter]
+* [https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/supreme-court-of-canada-hearings/id1592442126 SCC arguments (audio)]
-* [http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/index.html DOJ Research Reports on Criminal Justice System]
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