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Welcome to
The Criminal Law Notebook,

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

1246 articles

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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.

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.

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

May 13, 2022

Supreme Court of Canada in R v Sullivan, 2022 SCC 19, per Kasirer J declares s. 33.1 of the Code unconstitutional, removing the statutory prohibition against self-induced intoxication defences for certain offences.

January 16, 2022

Amendments creating a new offences relating to impeding health care services came into force.

January 7, 2022

Amendments creating new offences relating to conversion therapy came into force.

May 6, 2021

An amendment, adding s. 278.98 to the Criminal Code, came into force.

April 8, 2021

Feature Update: Look up offences quickly using the "Quick Access" link on the Navigation sidebar.

May 8, 2020

Feature Update: Quotations from most legislation now include an option to note up the provision on CanLII.

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Disclaimer

Any views or opinions expressed within this website are those of the author alone.

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.

Nothing here should be taken as legal advice.

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