Do you have your first criminal trial coming up? Or maybe you’ve received an emergency call from someone in custody? Perhaps you just really want to learn about the Kienapple Principle, the Ancillary Power “Waterfield” Doctrine, or the Jordan Framework?
If so, then Criminal Procedure in Canada by Steven Penney, Vincenzo Rondinelli and James Stribopoulos is the book for all your criminal procedure needs, big or small!
This title can help you learn more about:
- Criminal procedure and basic concepts such as jurisdiction and the Charter.
- Initial steps and procedures in a criminal law case such as search and seizure, questioning (including youth questioning), intake procedures, information and pleas.
- Summary of legislation and constitutional considerations regarding bail.
- Information on disclosure and prosecutorial function.
- Remedies for procedural breaches.
- Territorial limits including extraterritorial, interprovincial and intraprovincial limits.
- Temporal limits including statutory limitation periods, unreasonable delay and effects of the pandemic.
- Trial procedures starting with jury selection all the way to sentencing, including information on mistrials and appeals.
- And much more!
Criminal Procedure in Canada is available on the public access computers at all our Courthouse Libraries BC locations. Next time you’re in the library, search for the title in the library catalogue on the computer and click on the digital access link; this will take you straight to the digital title in Lexis Advance.
We also have this title available in print. If you want to borrow the book or request scans through our document delivery service, please contact us at librarian@courthouselibrary.ca or 1-800-665-2570.
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