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"The Law of Search and Seizure in Canada is the definitive text on all aspects of this intricate and rapidly evolving area of criminal law. Much cited by Canadian courts at all levels, this seminal volume clearly lays out the complex legal framework that governs the issuance, execution and review of search warrants, and the rules limiting warrantless activities by state agents. The book also analyzes the central role of the Charter of Rights in determining the legality of police action and the admissibility of evidence when constitutional protections are breached."-- Provided by publisher.
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Section 33 - what is commonly referred to as the notwithstanding clause (NWC) - was written into the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to allow Parliament and the provinces to provisionally override certain Charter rights.The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter examines the NWC from all angles and perspectives, considering who should have the last word on matters of rights and justice - the legislatures or the unelected judiciary - and what balance liberal democracy requires. In the case of Quebec, the use of the clause has been justified as necessary to preserve the province's culture and promote its identity as a nation. Yet Quebec's pre-emptive and sweeping invocation of the clause also challenges the scope of judicial review and citizens' recourse to it, and it tests the assumption that a dialogue between the judiciary and the legislature is always preferable in instances in which the legislative branch decides to suspend the operation of certain Charter rights and freedoms. By virtue of its contested purposes, interpretations, operation, and applications, the NWC represents and, to an extent, defines both the character and the very real vulnerabilities of liberal constitutionalism in Canada.The significance, effects, and legitimacy of the NWC have been vigorously debated within scholarship and among politicians and activists since the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982. In The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter leading scholars, jurists, and policy experts elucidate and prescribe reforms to the application of this consequential clause about which so much is written, and around which there is relatively little consensus.
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"Contains over 65,000 legal terms, each clearly and precisely defined in plain English. Fully revised with new material on every page, the 12th edition features over 2,500 new terms"-- Publisher's website, viewed on June 11, 2024.
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"Contains over 65,000 legal terms, each clearly and precisely defined in plain English. Fully revised with new material on every page, the 12th edition features over 2,500 new terms"-- Publisher's website, viewed on June 11, 2024.
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Between 2006 to 2008, no less than three public inquiries recommended that, absent a reasonable likelihood of re-prosecution, prosecutors should allow the wrongfully convicted to be acquitted and not be subject to prosecutorial stays. Prosecutorial stays are an exercise of prosecutorial discretion under. 579 of the Criminal Code that can only be challenged with evidence of flagrant impropriety. They do not provide protection against double jeopardy. They can amount to a third “legal limbo” verdict between guilty and not guilty. Only two prosecutorial services in Canada have adopted the three inquiry recommendations in their guidelines or deskbooks. This failure has real world consequences: namely at least five cases involving seven accused in four different provinces since 2016 where convictions were overturned because of new evidence relevant to guilt or innocence only to be the subject of a prosecutorial stay which deprived the previously convicted person of a verdict on the merits. In addition to being at odds with the three inquiry recommendations, such uses of prosecutorial stays promote continued suspicion of the wrongfully convicted and create two classes of the wrongfully convicted: those who are acquitted and those who only receive a prosecutorial stay.
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How intimate partner violence (IPV) is conceptualized affects what we see when we look at situations involving IPV and what we think the solutions to the problem of IPV are—either in individual cases or in the development of broader legal and policy responses. In this article, it is suggested that while conceptualizing IPV as coercive control is an improvement over previous understandings, it does not go far enough. Coercive control must be located within a broader conceptualization of IPV as a form of social and systemic entrapment if it is not to operate in a harmful manner for victim-survivors.
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"Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in R v Jordan, 2016 SCC 27, there has developed a complex new body of jurisprudence respecting how section 11(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is to be interpreted, and how the Jordan framework should be applied. A Proactive Practitioner’s Guide to Section 11(b) of the Charter provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the relevant caselaw, addressing issues including when section 11(b) is engaged, to what portion of proceedings the framework applies, how key concepts such as defence-caused delay and discrete exceptional circumstances are defined, how the impact of the pandemic has been accounted for, how section 11(b) is applied on sentencing, and considerations related to interlocutory proceedings and appeals. This guide provides both an examination of the caselaw relevant to these issues, and analysis and discussion related to outstanding questions yet to be settled by the courts. Accordingly, it will provide practitioners with ready answers, a foundation to pursue legal argument related to section 11(b) of the Charter, and with a roadmap to areas still open to be litigated."-- Provided by publisher.
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"The 2nd edition, as part of our "Criminal Law Series," continues to be a very practical, balanced, and concise treatment of all issues related to criminal sentencing. The book begins with general principles and then moves on to discuss pleas negotiations, procedure and advocacy in sentencing hearings, impact on the victim, types of sentences available, Charter considerations, the sentencing ruling itself, appellate issues, ancillary orders, and post sentencing issues. This edition includes a new chapter on specific offences."-- Provided by publisher.
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"This title addresses civil procedure in Ontario, from preliminary considerations to appeals of motions, applications and actions. It provides readers with knowledge of the litigation process in the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal for Ontario."-- Provided by publisher
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