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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.
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.


The site has become a leading source of free online information for criminal law with more than 1.5 million pageviews each year.
The site has become a leading source of free online information for criminal law with more than 2 million pageviews each year.


To learn more about this project, read the [[Criminal Law Notebook:About|About The Criminal Law Notebook]] page.
To learn more about this project, read the [[Criminal Law Notebook:About|About The Criminal Law Notebook]] page.


Please feel free to contact the author, Peter Dostal, LLB, at peter.dostal@gmail.com with any comments. <!--You can also make requests for what you would like to see covered in more detail by posting anonymously on the [http://criminalnotebook.ca/forum/index.php feedback page], but please, no posting about the circumstance of your active cases.--> <!--If there are specific errors in an article you can comment in the "Discussion" tab. I REMOVED THIS BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF WEBSITE FEB 25, 2018-->
Please feel free to contact the author, Peter Dostal, LLB, at peter.dostal@gmail.com with any comments. <!--You can also make requests for what you would like to see covered in more detail by posting anonymously on the [http://criminalnotebook.ca/forum/index.php feedback page], but please, no posting about the circumstance of your active cases.--> <!--If there are specific errors in an article you can comment in the "Discussion" tab. I REMOVED THIS BECAUSE OF THE MIGRATION OF WEBSITE FEB 25, 2018-->
You can also DM me at [https://twitter.com/CrimLawNotebook @CrimLawNotebook] on Twitter for article or topic requests.
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[[List of Criminal Code Amendments]] | [[Table of Concordance (Criminal Code)|Criminal Code Table of Concordance]] |  [[Offences by Penalty]] | [[List of Offences by Category|Offences by Category]] | [[Criminal Code and Related Definitions|Definitions]] | [[List of Criminal Code Forms|Criminal Code Forms]] | [[Precedents, Court Forms and Checklists]] | [[Rules of Court]] | [[Glossary]] | [[Crime Statistics]] | [[Court Membership]]
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* [https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/187469/ The Criminal Law Ebook (CanLII)]
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* [https://criminalcodecriminel.ca/code-index Criminal Code criminel (open source annotations)]
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Revision as of 17:47, 1 May 2025


Welcome to
The Criminal Law Notebook,
a free resource of Canadian criminal law written
by Peter Dostal.
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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.

The site has become a leading source of free online information for criminal law with more than 2 million pageviews 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 peter.dostal@gmail.com with any comments. You can also DM me at @CrimLawNotebook on X/Twitter for article or topic requests.

Want to help keep the Criminal Law Notebook free? Click here to make a donation.

Vous préférez une version française?

Browse over 1397 articles

The articles are divided into five core categories:

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Other Articles

List of Criminal Code Amendments | Criminal Code Table of Concordance | Offences by Penalty | Offences by Category | Definitions | Criminal Code Forms | Precedents, Court Forms and Checklists | Rules of Court | Glossary | Crime Statistics | Court Membership | List of Bilingual Articles


News

January 14, 2025

Several small updates to the site. Platform upgrade allows font, margin and background colour changes. I have also added a feedback form at the bottom of every page for ease of flagging error or omissions.

August 8, 2024

Pour ceux d'entre vous qui travaillent dans le système de justice pénale en utilisant la langue française. Il existe maintenant une traduction française (expérimentale) du site Web : http://carnetdroitpenal.ca

July 7 to 14, 2024

I have migrated the site to a new server. It has caused some problems that I believe are now finally all resolved. Please be patient if anything more comes up in the next few days.

March 1, 2024

Supreme Court of Canada in R v Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6 (CanLII), per Martin J (5:4) finds that IP addresses are protected by a reasonable expectation of privacy and its seizure by police can be protected under s. 8 of the Charter.

January 4, 2024

Bill C-48, amending various bail provisions, came into force.


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