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<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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''[[Topic Index#Volume II: Evidence|Evidence]]'' <br>
''[[Topic Index#Volume III: Search and Seizure|Search and Seizure]]''<br>
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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.


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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]]
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<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">November 17, 2022</div>
[[List_of_Criminal_Code_Amendments_(2020_to_present)#2022,_c._15|Amendments come into force]] that removes minimum jail sentences for various firearms, weapons and drug trafficking-related offences and expands [[Conditional Sentences|conditional sentence]] eligibility to include most previously ineligible offences. It also introduced Part I.1 to the CDSA, which directs police and Crown to consider non-criminal options for all drug possession offences.
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">October 28, 2022</div>
Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|Ndhlovu|jsnhh|2022 SCC 38 (CanLII)}}{{perSCC|Karakatsanis and Martin JJ}} strikes down the provisions requiring offenders convicted of multiple sexual offences to be put on the sexual offender registry for life. The law violated s. 7 of the ''Charter'' for being "overbroad".
<div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">June 30, 2022</div>
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>
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''Feature Update'': Quotations from most legislation now include an option to note up the provision on CanLII.


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* [https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/187469/ The Criminal Law Ebook (CanLII)]
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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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Browse over 1397 articles

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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


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.


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