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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">June 21, 2019</div>
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| 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. [https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2019/06/government-of-canada-announces-criminal-code-reforms-to-modernize-the-criminal-justice-system-and-reduce-delays.html]
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Revision as of 12:03, 27 March 2021
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May 8, 2020
Feature Update: Quotations from most legislation now include an option to note up the provision on CanLII.
May 1, 2020
Government adds to Regulation SOR/98-462 deeming a list of over 1,000 firearms to be prohibited.
April 2, 2020
Supreme Court of Canada releases R v Friesen, 2020 SCC 9 (CanLII), per Wagner C.J. and Rowe J that provides detailed guidance on sentencing for child sexual offence including the need to increase penalties.
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.
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