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Welcome to
The Criminal Law Notebook,

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

1147 articles

The Canadian 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.

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.

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News

December 18, 2019

The last portion of bill C-75 is now in force. It includes major changes to the detention and release provisions.

September 19, 2019

A large portion of bill C-75 is now in force, including removal of preliminary inquiries for certain indictable offences.

June 21, 2019

Bill C-75 given royal asset. This bill adopts the Antic decision broadening bail, reduces the amount of court order breach prosecutions, removes pre-emptory challenges in jury trials, expands penalty for summary election offences, removes preliminary inquiry on certain eligible offences, removes certain unconstitutional provisions, and other changes. Most provisions come into force 90 and 180 days later. [1]

December 18, 2018

Bill C-46 on "Conveyances" affecting Criminal Code offences relating to driving, including drug impairment, has now come into force.

December 14, 2018

The Supreme Court of Canada in R v Boudreault, 2018 SCC 58 (CanLII), per Martin J, finds mandatory imposition of victim fine surcharges on persons convicted of crime was found invalid as "cruel and unusual" punishment.

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Nothing should be construed as official statements of any governmental or non-governmental organization.

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

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