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CHARTER OF RIGHTS & FREEDOMS

• Abuse of Process by Crown Prosecutor - Test For

• CanLII Digests to 2005

• Charter Rights

• Confidentiality of Reporter Sources

• Exclusion of Evidence - Grant Test

• Expectation of Privacy In a Work Computer

• Right to Silence - but  SCC Lets Police Persist

• Stay of Proceedings - Egregious Misconduct

• Self Incrimination

• Trial Within a Reasonable Time

SEARCH & SEIZURE

• Emergency Wiretaps

• Search Home - CDSA Anytime Warrant

• Search Home - General Rules

• Search Home - Knock Rule

• Search Home - Warrantless

• Search Home Crim Code - Night

• Search Power - Investigative Detention

• Search Warran
•  - Duties of Issuing Officer

• Search Warrants General Requirements

PRE-TRIAL

• Bail - "Signing For"

• Bail - General Principles

• Disclosure - All Relevant Material

• Election & Plea

• Legal Aid - Duty Counsel

• Preliminary Inquiry

TRIALS / HEARINGS

• Amicus Curiae - Appointment of Counsel by Judge

• Cross Examination - Browne v Dunn

• Cross Examination - Hostile or Adverse Witness

• Cross Examination - Importance Of

• Cross Examination - Sexual Assault

• Cross Examination - Target Question

• Peace Bonds - Considerations

• Right to Silence - re Police

• Witness - Being One

• Witness - No Show

DEFENCES  /  DEFENCE ISSUES

• Failure To Appear/Abide - I Forgot

• Family Violenc  - “Battered Wife Syndrome”

• Fitness To Stand Trial

• Mistake of Fact

• Not Criminally Responsible (NCR)

• Officially Induced Error

• Duress

• Provocation - Test for

• Provocation - Murder to Manslaughter

• Sexual Assault - Consent

• Sexual Assault
• - Consent Must Be Revocable

• Toxic Psychosis

OFFENCES

• Child Pornography - Possession v Accessing

• Dangerous Operation Motor Vehicle

• HIV Non Disclosure can be Aggravated Assault

• Kidnapping

• Prostitution

• UtteringThreats

PROCEDURE

• Joinder of Trials/Counts

• Making a Challenge to RPG

• Making a Challenge to "As Soon As Practicable"

LEGAL PROOF

EVIDENCE - RULES - PRESUMPTIONS - INFERENCES

• Accused Testifies - WD Rule

• After the Fact Conduct - Guilt  Inferences

• After the Fact Conduct - Innocense Inferences

• Alibi Evidence - Provide in a Timely Manner

• Assessing Credibility per Canadian Judicial Council

• Assessing Credibility per Faryna v Chorny

• Assessing Testimony

• Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Much Closer to Certainty

• Burden of Proof

• Causation - Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

• Circumstantial  - No Other Rational Conclusion

• Conviction & Testimony of Co Accused

• Criminal Organization

• Eyewitness Testimony  - Generally Unreliable

• Hearsay - Functional Approach

• Hearsay - Functional Approach - Motive to Lie

• Heresay is Admissible in Breach of Conditional Sentence Hearings

• Inference -  Person usually knows predictable consequences of actions and means to bring them about

• Inferences

• Issue Estopple

• Mandatory Statement - Inadmissible

• Mens Rea

• Modern Rule of Statutory Construction

• Parties - Aiding - Abetting

• Possession - Knowledge

• Possession Control

• Possession of Stolen Goods - Presumptions

• Prior Consistent Statements-Rebut Inference Recent Fabrication

• Proof of Consent / Lack of

• Proof of Criminal Record - Corbett - Fairness

• Right to Not Testify - Inferences

• Similar Fact - Gangs

• Similar Fact - Presumptively Inadmissable

• Similar Fact - Prior Conviction

• Unsavory Witness - Vetrovec Warning

DUI

• Blood Alcohol Calculater

• Challenge to "As Soon As Practicable"

• Challenge to RPG

• Challenge to Breath Test Results

• Criminal Code-DUI

• Curative Discharge

• DUI Penalties

• Impaired Care or Control

• Impaired Care or Control - SCC Modifies Test

• Reasonable and Probable Grounds - Test

• Refusal - Lawful Excuse

APPEALS

• Bail Pending Appeal

• Fresh Evidence

• Summary Conviction Appeals

• Unreasonable Verdict

GENERAL TOPICS

• Inmate Discipline Process

• Loss of Driving Privileges - By Police

• Loss of Driving Privileges - By Registrar

• Legal Resource Links

FORMS/CHECKLISTS

• Domestic Violence Ct Disposition - English (NB)

• Domestic Violence Ct Disposition - French (NB)

• Release Terms - Checklist (NS)

• Sentence - Conditional -Checklist (NS)

• Sentence Terms - Checklist (NS)

MARIHUANA LAWS

• Mernage -Regs struck down - Appeal pending

SENTENCING

• Aboriginal Offenders

• Conditional Sentence - “House Arrest”

• Credit for Time Served

• Credit forTime Served - 1:1.5

• Curative Discharge

• Discharge - Requirements to Make the Case

• Fines-Offender Ability to Pay

• Joint Recommendations

• Joint Recommendations -  When Crown Can Renege

• Mandatory Minimums - Exceptional - Charter Breach

• Mandatory Minimums - Smickle

• Pre 1996 Cases - Caution

• Sentence - Lack of Remorse

• Sentence Hearings - Evidence

• Sentence Ranges - NSBS

• Sentence Ranges CDSA - NS

• Sentencing Principle - Gap Principle

• Sentencing Principles  “Totality”, “Jump”, “Step” and “Gap” - Fitness of Sentence - Aggravating Factors -Deterrence - Proportionality - “Coke Principle”

CITIZEN & POLICE

• Lie Detectors - To Submit or Not?

• Police Informant -  Identity Confidential

• Right to Legal Counsel -  Charter Right

• Right to Non-Cooperation in Investigation -  But Sometimes Cooperation is Good

• Roadside Stop - How to Handle

• Statement - Whether to Provide

• Strip Search Rules

• Wrongful Arrest - How to React

Criminal Records - The Implications

Access to Paid Legal Representation

• Appointment of Counsel by Judge -
• Amicus Curiae

• Court Ordered Lawyer - Rowbotham

• Legal Aid

SELF REPRESENTATION

• How to Register for Fine Options

• How to Apply to Extend Time to Pay Fine

• How to Apply to Vary a Recognizance

• How to Communicate with the Court & Prosecution - Fax It!

• How to Cross Examine

• How to Direct Examine

• How To Get Disclosure

• How to Prepare for a Pre Sentence Report

• How to Seek Adult Diversion

• How to Seek Release Without Penalty In NB

• How to Seek Remission of a Penalty(NS)

• How to Seek Restorative Justice

• Self Representation - Resource Links

• Why it is Not a Fair Fight

Family Violence

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