A Guide to Conducting Sentencing Hearings in Canada / Gregory Koturbash
KM585.9.K68 2023
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Written by an experienced Provincial Court judge, A Guide to Conducting Sentencing Hearings in Canada is an indispensable resource for legal professionals involved in conducting sentencing hearings in Canada. Its practical and comprehensive format offers quick and reliable answers to all questions related to sentencing hearings, from the initial guilty plea to available sentencing options.
One of the book’s significant strengths is its thorough coverage of applicable sentencing objectives and principles, which are critical for achieving just outcomes. Its extensive list of mitigating and aggravating factors and collateral consequences is the most informative and comprehensive resource available.
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Legal Issues on Indigenous Economic Development, 2nd ed / Hanna Darwin
KM208.I5H36 2023
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Indigenous communities in Canada are actively involved in economic development opportunities based upon their unique circumstances. Indigenous communities advance economic development opportunities to self-determine their economic strategy and priorities and to implement community economic plans. This book provides a practical grounding in the various legal considerations and developmental issues that arise when Indigenous Nations engage in economic development initiatives. Through the implementation of UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) and accommodation of aboriginal and Treaty rights, Indigenous communities have been able to leverage impact and benefit negotiations to further their economic development, often through unique corporate structures.
Legal Issues on Indigenous Economic Development, 2nd Edition explores the legal framework concerning economic development opportunities for Indigenous communities and nations. Author Darwin Hanna brings over 25 years of experience, practicing and teaching in indigenous economic development. In this book, he thoroughly reviews the implementation of the principle of free, prior and informed consent and provides economic development case studies of communities, including in respect to gaming and cannabis opportunities. He shares his unique insight into the principles governing Aboriginal and business law, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the key decisions, concepts and doctrines in this changing and evolving area.
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Cannabis Law: the Legislative Framework 2023 / Bruce A. MacFarlane
KN186.41.M331 2023
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Cannabis Law: The Legislative Framework is a handy companion volume to Cannabis Law with all the significant cannabis-related statutes and regulations from across Canada. This volume provides an extensive and useful guide to the national legal framework regulating cannabis.
Updated annually, Cannabis Law: The Legislative Framework provides the actual statutes and regulations on the subject from all 13 provinces and territories. Cannabis Law: The Legislative Framework and Cannabis Law work in tandem. For example, Cannabis Law provides the basic law on what can be possessed quantities, by whom, and in what circumstances. Cannabis Law: The Legislative Framework paints in the variants: for instance, is consumption permitted in specific provincial parks, and what are the minimum age differences between the various jurisdictions? Put simply, this companion text provides the raw law that may become important in the analysis of any given issue.
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Gladue Principles: a Guide to the Jurisprudence / Benjamin A. Ralston
KM208.I5.R35 2021
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Over the past two decades Canadian courts have repeatedly acknowledged that Indigenous individuals and collectives face systemic discrimination throughout the criminal justice system. The system’s disproportionate adverse impacts on Indigenous peoples have also been thoroughly studied and documented for over half a century. Indigenous individuals are over-represented among those charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison, as well as those who are victims of crime. Among other disparities, Indigenous individuals are more likely to be denied parole, spend a disproportionate amount of time in segregation, and are less likely to receive community-based sentences. At the same time, the criminal justice system has often marginalized the legal responses of Indigenous collectives to wrongdoing among their members.
These systemic issues require systemic responses. On April 23, 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada provided one such response in its decision in R v Gladue, articulating a broad open-ended framework to address this crisis of legitimacy and outcomes in the sentencing of Indigenous persons. The Gladue decision’s main principles have since been extended to various other facets of the criminal justice system. At the direction of the BC First Nations Justice Council, this book synthesizes the hundreds of cases that expand on these principles to provide readily accessible guidance to all those involved in their practical implementation.
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Critical Issues in the Canadian Law of Architects and Engineers / Andrea Lee
KN169.A7.L44 2023
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Critical Issues in the Canadian Law of Architects and Engineers is a unique text focused on crucial legal issues affecting design professionals practicing in Canada today, written by experienced practitioners with the benefit of consultation with industry leaders.
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