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*[[Role of the Crown]] ([[Prosecutorial Discretion]]) · [[Role of the Defence Counsel]] · [[Conflicts of Interest]] · [[Role of Law Enforcement]] · [[Accused in Court|Role of the Accused]] ([[Sitting Position of the Accused at Trial]]) · [[Role of Trial Judge]] ([[Procedural Powers of a Preliminary Inquiry Judge]] · [[Judicial Immunity]] · [[Judicial Neutrality and Bias]] · [[Functus Officio]]) · [[Role of the Victim and Third Parties]] · [[Counsel Appearing by Telepresence]] | *[[Role of the Crown]] ([[Prosecutorial Discretion]]) · [[Role of the Defence Counsel]] · [[Conflicts of Interest]] · [[Role of Law Enforcement]] · [[Accused in Court|Role of the Accused]] ([[Sitting Position of the Accused at Trial]]) · [[Role of the Trial Judge]] ([[Procedural Powers of a Preliminary Inquiry Judge]] · [[Judicial Immunity]] · [[Judicial Neutrality and Bias]] · [[Functus Officio]]) · [[Role of the Victim and Third Parties]] · [[Counsel Appearing by Telepresence]] | ||
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** [[Electing a Preliminary Inquiry]] · [[Preliminary Inquiry Evidence]] · [[Air of Reality Test]] · [[Procedural Powers of a Preliminary Inquiry Judge]] · [[Order of Committal to Stand Trial]] | ** [[Electing a Preliminary Inquiry]] · [[Preliminary Inquiry Evidence]] · [[Air of Reality Test]] · [[Procedural Powers of a Preliminary Inquiry Judge]] · [[Order of Committal to Stand Trial]] | ||
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** [[Representation at Trial]] · [[Opening and Closing Address]] · [[Orders to Exclude Witnesses from Court]] · [[Testimonial Evidence]] · [[Examinations]] ([[Examinations-in-Chief]], [[Cross-Examinations]], [[Re-Direct Examinations]]) · [[Role of Trial Judge]] | ** [[Representation at Trial]] · [[Opening and Closing Address]] · [[Orders to Exclude Witnesses from Court]] · [[Testimonial Evidence]] · [[Examinations]] ([[Examinations-in-Chief]], [[Cross-Examinations]], [[Re-Direct Examinations]]) · [[Role of the Trial Judge]] | ||
** [[Loss of Judge During Proceedings]] | ** [[Loss of Judge During Proceedings]] | ||
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Revision as of 08:48, 27 April 2020
Volume I: Criminal Law
- Sources of Criminal Law
- Actus Reus and Mens Rea
- Actus Reus: Causation · Duty of Care · Possession
- Mens Rea: Intention · Knowledge and Wilful Blindness · Recklessness
- General Proof of Elements
- Doctrines of Constructive Liability
- Principles of Interpretation
- Constitutional Challenges to Legislation
- Offences
- Terrorism Offences · Weapon Offences · Sexual Offences (Online Sexual Offences) · Disorderly Conduct · Offences of Violence · Gambling and Gaming · Hate Speech and Libel · Administration of Justice Offences · Property Offences · Corruption Offences · Drug Offences (Drug Trafficking)
- Motor Vehicle Offences (Refusal to Give a Sample · Breath Sample Demand · Reasonable Grounds Under Section 254(3) · Presumption of Identity Under Section 258 · Forthwith Under Section 254 · Screening Device · Operation, Care or Control of a Vehicle · Proof of Blood Alcohol Levels · Proof of Impairment by Alcohol · Proof of Impairment by Drugs)
- Homicide ("Planned and Deliberate" · Murder by Unlawful Act or Object)
- Repealed Offences
- Definitions: "Bodily Harm", "Child Pornography", "Dwelling House", Judicial Officers and Offices, General Documents, Legal Documents and Financial Instruments, Parties, Persons, Places and Organizations, "Peace Officers", Terrorism Definitions, "Deceit, Falsehood, or Other Fraudulent Means", Terms Relating to Transactions and Transferences, "Weapons", "Firearms", "Prohibited Firearms", "Restricted Firearms", "non-restricted firearms", "Prohibited Device" and "Ammunition", Misc Code Definitions.
- Regulatory and Provincial Offences
- Defences
- Intoxication · Automatism · Provocation · Necessity · Duress · Entrapment · Reasonable Excuse · Self-Defence and Defence of Another (Pre-2013) · Defence of Property (Pre-2013) · Officially Induced Error · Acting in Authority · Corrective Force · Accident and Mistake (Mistaken Belief of Age) · Alibi · De Minimus · Due Diligence · Consent (Consent in Sexual Offences · Age of Consent in Sexual Offences) · Abandonment · Innocent Possession · Colour of Right
- Offence-specific Defences: Defamatory Libel Defences · Child Pornography Defences (Child Pornography Private Use Defence)
- Appendix
- Offences by Penalty · CDSA Schedules · Table of Concordance · Table of Cases · Criminal Code and Related Definitions List of Legislative Amendments (Criminal Code (2000 to present) · Criminal Code (1892 to 1984) · Criminal Code (1984 to 1999)) · List of Hybrid Offences · List of Straight Indictable Offences · List of Summary Conviction Offences · Offences by Penalty
Volume II: Evidence
Basic Principles
- Acceptance of Evidence
- Proving Facts
- Direct Evidence · Circumstantial Evidence · Inferences · Recent Possession · Presumptions (Presumption of Innocence) · Judicial Notice · Admissions of Fact · Analyzing Testimony (Bias, Interest, and Corruption in Assessing Credibility · Weighing Testimony of the Accused · Credibility and Reliability of Child Witnesses) · Corroboration
- Proof of Previous Conviction · Proof of Controlled Substance
Forms of Evidence
- Real Evidence
- Documentary Evidence
- Testimonial Evidence
- Competence and Compellability: Compelling Attendance of Witnesses · Oaths and Affirmations · Competence of Witnesses to Testify · Competence of Children and Witnesses of Diminished Capacity · Spousal Immunity
- Refreshing Memory · Testimonial Aids for Young, Disabled or Vulnerable Witnesses · Long Distance Testimonial Aids · Interpreters · Evidence by Commission
- Adverse and Hostile Witnesses
Limits on the Admissibility of Evidence
- Opinion Evidence
- Credibility
- Character Evidence
- Hearsay
- Traditional Exceptions (Statutory Hearsay Exception for Victims, Children and Disabled · Statements Against Interest Exception · Res Gestae and Dying Declarations · Past Recollection Recorded · Previously Sworn Testimony Exception to Hearsay · Co-Conspirators Exception to Hearsay · Adoptive and Implied Admissions)
- Principled Exception (Necessity · Reliability)
- Admissions and Confessions
- Privilege
Volume III: Search and Seizure
- Introduction to Search and Seizure
- Fundamental Principles
- Warrant Searches
- Applying for Judicial Authorizations · Contents of the ITO (Confidential Informers) · Search Warrant Evidence · Reasonable and Probable Grounds · Standard of Review · Execution of Warrants ·
- Special Search Issues · Searches Intruding on Solicitor-Client Privilege (including Law Office Searches) · Computer-related Search Issues · Sealing and Unsealing Judicial Authorizations
- Types of Warrant
- Section 487 Search Warrants · General Warrants (487.01) · Bodily Samples (including impaired driving, DNA Samples, s. 487.091, Body Print Impression Warrant (487.092)) · Obscene Materials Warrant (164) · Gaming House Warrants (199) · Tracking Warrant (492.1) · Warrant for Transmission Data Recorder (492.2) · Firearms Warrants · Hate Propaganda Warrants (320) · Terrorist Propoganda (83.222) · CDSA Warrants (11 CDSA) · Foreign Warrants · Telewarrants
- Production Orders: General Production Orders · Production Orders for Financial Data · Production Orders for Tracking Data · Trace Specified Communications Production Orders · Transmission Data Production Orders
- Wiretaps (Consent Wiretaps · Third Party Wiretaps · Warrantless Wiretaps · Designated Offences · Admitting Wiretap Evidence · Annual Wiretap Reports)
Seizure and Forfeiture Powers
- Preservation of Evidence and Property
- Seizure of Property
- Ancillary Powers Doctrine · Warrantless Seizure Under Section 489 · Detention Order for Things Seized Under Section 489 or 487.11 · Taking Photographs and Fingerprints of Accused Persons · Inventory Searches · Firearm Seizure Powers · Seizure of Proceeds of Crime · Seizure and Forfeiture of Obscene or Child Pornographic Materials · Return of Things Seized to Lawful Owners · Seizure of Firearms · Warrants to Seize Explosives · Seizure of Bodily Samples
- Forfeiture Orders
- Forfeiture of Proceeds of Crime · Forfeiture of Offence-related Property · Forfeiture of Offence-related Property Under the CDSA · Forfeiture of Things Detained Under Section 490 · Forfeiture of Weapons and Firearms · Forfeiture of Computer-related Property · Fine in Lieu of Forfeiture · Civil Forfeiture · Terrorism Forfeiture Orders · Hate Propaganda Forfeiture Orders
Exclusion of Evidence
Appendix
Volume IV: Procedure and Practice
Arrest, Detention and Release
- Arrest and Detention
- Investigative Detention · Warrantless Arrests (Arrest by a Citizen) · Initial Post-Charge Detention · Detention With Charges Outstanding
- Warrant Arrests: Accused Arrest Warrants for Failing to Attend Court · Arrest Warrants for Witnesses · Arrest Warrant for Breach of Court Orders · Out of Province Arrest Warrants
- Reasonable Suspicion
- Procedural Rights
- Compelling Attendance
- Judicial Interim Release / Bail
- Extradition
The Parties in a Proceeding
- Role of the Crown (Prosecutorial Discretion) · Role of the Defence Counsel · Conflicts of Interest · Role of Law Enforcement · Role of the Accused (Sitting Position of the Accused at Trial) · Role of the Trial Judge (Procedural Powers of a Preliminary Inquiry Judge · Judicial Immunity · Judicial Neutrality and Bias · Functus Officio) · Role of the Victim and Third Parties · Counsel Appearing by Telepresence
Disclosure
- Crown Duty to Disclose (Types of Disclosable Materials · Limitations on Access to Disclosure) · Police Duty to Collect Evidence · Lost or Destroyed Evidence · Disclosure of Third Party Records · Remedy for Breach of Disclosure Obligation · Demand for Particulars · Production Orders · Special Disclosure Issues · Access to Things Detained Under Section 490 · Access to Court-Filed Exhibits
Courts and Charges
- Criminal Courts and Charges
- Public Access to Courts
- Open Court Principle · Public and Media Restrictions (Statutory Publication Ban on Court Proceedings · Excluding People From Court) · Publication Bans Relating to Youth Prosecutions · Access to Records Relating to Youth Prosecutions · Access to Court-Filed Exhibits · Sealing and Unsealing Judicial Authorizations
Pre-Hearing Stages
- Initial Court Appearances
- Case Management Hearings
- Applications and Motions Procedure
- Crown or Judge-Ordered Termination of Proceedings
- Prerogative Writs and Judicial Review
- Costs
Substantive Hearings
Mental Health Issues
- Mental Illness
- Assessment for Fitness and Criminal Responsibility · Fitness to Stand Trial · Assessment for Fitness and Criminal Responsibility · Treatment of an Accused Unfit to Stand Trial · Not Criminally Responsible Due to Mental Disorder
- Review Board Detention and Bail, Review Board Disposition Hearings, Review Board Hearing Procedure, Review Board Publication Bans, Review of Review Board
Youth Procedure
Appeals
- Appeals
- Right to Appeal
- Right of Appeal of Verdicts or Sentences for Indictable Offences · Right of Appeal of Verdicts or Sentences for Summary Offences · Right of Appeal of Verdicts or Sentences for Indictable Offences · Right of Appeal of Verdicts or Sentences for Summary Offences · Right of Appeal of a Summary Conviction Appeal Decision
- Appeals Relating to Young Persons
- Standard of Review
- Grounds of Appeal from Verdicts: Unreasonable Verdict · Appeal of an Error of Law · Miscarriage of Justice (Ineffective Counsel) · Misapprehension of Evidence · Sufficiency of Reasons
- Grounds of Appeal from Sentence · Appeals Other Than Verdicts or Sentences
- Remedies on Conviction Appeal · Remedies on Acquittal Appeal · Remedies on Sentence Appeal
- Appeal Procedure
- Appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada
- Ministerial Review
Appendix
- Definitions · Case Digests · Readings · List of Criminal Code Forms · Misc Procedural Provisions
- Precedents and Checklists: Motions Chart · Motions Checklist · Trial Preparation Checklist · Bail Checklist
Volume V: Sentencing
Principles and Factors
- Purpose and Principles of Sentencing
- Proportionality · Totality · Parity Principle · Restraint Principle · Jump, Step and Gap Principles · Aboriginal Offenders · Sentencing Starting Points · Sentencing Ranges
- Aggravating and Mitigating Factors: Sentencing Factors Relating to the Offender · Sentencing Factors Relating to the Offence · Victims as a Factor in Sentencing · State and Police Misconduct as a Sentencing Factor · Effect of Criminal Records in Sentencing · Position of Trust as a Factor in Sentencing
- Sentencing of Organizations
- Principles by Offence
Tools of Sentencing: Available Sentences
- Alternative Measures: Extrajudicial Measures for Young Offenders · Remediation Agreements
- Sentences: Discharges (Curative Discharges) · Probation Orders (Terms and Conditions · Restitution) · Fines · Imprisonment · Conditional Sentences (Terms and Conditions of a Conditional Sentence Order · Conditional Sentence Breaches)
- Concurrent and Consecutive Sentences · Maximum and Minimum Sentences · Life Sentences
Tools of Sentencing: Ancillary Orders
- Ancillary Investigative Orders
- Ancillary Prohibition Orders
- Ancillary Fine and Restitution Orders:
- Forfeiture Orders
Procedure
Serving Sentences and Afterwards
- Serving Sentences · Consequences of Criminal Records After Sentencing (Pardons and Record Suspensions · Immigration Consequences from a Conviction)
- Parole: Delayed Parole Eligibility · Judicial Review of Parole Ineligibility · Judicial Review of Parole Ineligibility for Murder
- Long-Term and Dangerous Offender Designation:
- Remand Assessment for LTO/DO Applications · List of Dangerous Offender Designated Offences · Requirements for a Long Term Offender Designation · Serious Personal Injury Offences · Consequences of a Long Term Offender Designation · Requirements for a Dangerous Offender Designation · Consequences of a Dangerous Offender Designation · Procedure in a LTO/DO Designation Hearing · Appellate Review of an LTO or DO Designation
Young Offenders
- Youth Criminal Justice · Miscellaneous Authority of a Youth Court Justice
- Procedure for Young Accused · Bail for Young Accused
- Sentencing Young Offenders · Principles and Purposes of Youth Sentencing · Youth Pre-Sentence Reports · Dispositions for Young Offenders · Adult Sentences for Young Offenders · Custody and Supervision Orders
Military
Appendix
Full Text By Volume
- Volume 1: Criminal Law (large page)
- Volume 1.1: Offence Profiles (large page)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1A (Terrorism, Organized Crime, Weapons)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1B (Sexual Offences and Disorder Offences)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1C (Violent Offences and Homicide)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1D (Administration of Justice Offences)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1E (Motor Vehicle Offences)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1F (Property Offences and Corruption Offences)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1G (Drug Offences)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1H (Gaming, Hate Speech, Libel, Regulatory)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1I (Repealed and Unconstitutional Offences)
- Full Text:Volume 1.1J (Misc Offences)
- Volume 2: Evidence (large page)
- Volume 3: Search and Seizure (large page)
- Volume 4: Procedure and Practice (large page)
- Full Text:Volume 4A - Police Powers and Bail
- Full Text:Volume 4B - Pre-trial Matters
- Full Text:Volume 4C - Preliminiary Inquiry, Trial and Verdict
- Full Text:Volume 4D - Mental Health
- Full Text:Volume 4E - Appeals
- Volume 5: Sentencing (large page)
- Volume 6: Case Digests (large page)
- Volume 7: Reference Materials (large page)