Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Criminal Offences and Defences (2025 Reissue)

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Whether a Criminal Law client requires a basic explanation of a drinking and driving charge, a Family Law file involves an abduction by a non-custodial parent, or a corporate transaction is complicated by the alleged use of proceeds of crime, Criminal and non-Criminal lawyers alike require an authoritative resource to simplify the various offences set out in the Criminal Code.

Newly revised and thoroughly updated, Halsbury's Law of Canada – Criminal Offences and Defences (2025 Reissue) by Alan Gold not only sets out the law governing criminal offences in Canada, but also addresses the technical and substantive defences available to an accused, either in the Criminal Code or through the operation of common law. The updated title discusses recent amendments to the Criminal Code, including the introduction of offences related to conversion therapy and trafficking in human organs and amendments to hate propaganda provisions.

Topics covered include:

• Threshold and framework issues
  • Constitutional validity of the criminal offence
  • History and interpretation of the Criminal Code
  • Who can prosecute a criminal offence
  • Who can be held criminally liable
  • Territorial jurisdiction
  • Common law offences and defences
  • Elements of crime
• Investigative powers of arrest and enforcement
  • Powers of arrest with or without a warrant
  • Duty of peace officer following apprehension or arrest
  • Other warrantless powers
  • Liabilities and exemptions from liability
  • Offences committed against or involving peace officers
  • Escape from lawful custody and failure to appear
• Criminal Code offences
  • Interception of communications
  • Crimes against public order, including terrorism
  • Impaired driving and refusal to provide breath or blood samples
  • Sexual assault, sexual offences involving children, obscenity and child pornography
  • Public indecency
  • Offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration
  • Games, gaming and betting
  • Conversion therapy
  • Murder, manslaughter, assault and other crimes involving violence or threats of violence
  • Kidnapping, trafficking in persons, hostage taking and abduction
  • Criminal libel and hate propaganda
  • Criminal negligence and recklessness
  • Offences in relation to family relationships and children
  • Property offences and fraudulent transactions
  • Firearms and other weapons
  • Proceeds of crime
• Special issues
  • Parties to offences
  • Conspiracy offences
  • Organized crime
  • Misleading or subverting justice
• Statutory and common law defences
  • Burden of proof
  • Process-oriented defences
  • Substantive common law defences
  • Substantive defences under the Criminal Code
    • Self-induced intoxication
    • Mental disorder
    • Self-defence
    • Defence of property
    • Other defences