Oct 3, 2022 | Articles, Criminal Defence
Criminal negligence is the failure on the part of a person with a duty to take reasonable steps to prevent certain negative outcomes from occurring. Although it is broadly-defined with several negligence-based criminal offences detailed in the Criminal Code, most...
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Sep 9, 2022 | Criminal Defence, Impaired Driving / DUI
Impaired driving offences are not uncommon in Canada. According to data gathered by Stats Can in 2019, police services reported a total of 85,673 incidents of impaired driving, the highest number since 2011. Interestingly, the study mentions that the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Jun 9, 2022 | Canadian Laws, Criminal Defence
Let’s imagine you’ve been charged with an indictable offence under the criminal code of Canada. All offences under the Criminal Code of Canada are defined as either summary, indictable, or hybrid offences. Summary offences are generally less serious both in terms of...
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Jan 24, 2022 | Criminal Defence
You’ve seen it in movies, on television, and true-crime videos on YouTube. In real-life, the Reid Technique is very effective at producing confessions. First developed in the 1940s by John E. Reid, it has become the most widely used approach to interrogation in the...
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Jan 10, 2022 | Criminal Defence
When cannabis edibles are made to look like candy, the upswing in the number of cases where children accidentally consume the drug is no surprise. Imagine you’re a hungry kid looking for a snack, and you come across cookies, brownies or gummy candies. A young child...
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Dec 2, 2021 | Canadian Laws, Criminal Defence
This one can get a little tricky. The answer is yes, and no. Just like a door-to-door salesperson, a hockey team looking for bottles, or representatives of a certain religion looking to convert you, the police have the right to approach the front door of a residence...
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