Annotated Ontario Rules of Criminal Practice, 2025 interprets the Ontario Rules of Criminal Practice, relating to applications for extraordinary remedies and criminal trial and appeal proceedings. It also includes the full text of the Criminal Appeal Rules and the Superior Court of Justice Rules.

This edition features significant changes made to the Practice Directions and, or protocols, in the Superior Court of Justice, and the Ontario Court of Justice. The changes include guidance post-COVID-19, significant modernization, including electronic filing and video appearances, and measures to focus on reducing delay.

Cases of the past year featured in this edition include the following:

R. v. Fashoranti – Appeal by the Crown from a stay entered at the request of Crown.
R. v. Lonechild – Limits on Crown appeal in dangerous offender matters.
R. v. Hodgson – Clarification on Crown’s ability to appeal.
R. v. C.P. – Presumption that appeals against conviction and sentence heard together.
R. v. Coates – Necessity of leave being granted before stay of prohibition order.
R. v. A.S. – Relevance of outstanding charges, as opposed to withdrawn charges on bail pending appeal.
R. v. Ameyaw – Revocation of bail pending appeal.
R. v. Campbell – Forfeiture for failure to surrender.
Landry c. R. – Section 679 v. Section 680.
R. v. Khamo – Fresh evidence admitted regarding the Crown’s approach in a related case.
R. v. R.G. – Test for admission of fresh evidence applicable to reopening applications prior to sentence.
R. v. Hason – Fresh evidence admitted regarding adverse findings on expert in another case.
R. v. Colley – Categorization of fresh evidence cases.
R. v. K.J.M.J – Judge’s letter explaining conduct part of the record.
R. v. Cargioli – When second degree is substituted for first degree, the Court of Appeal and trial court having concur rent jurisdiction to sentence.
R. c. Tremblay – Correct procedure to remove Judge for bias.
La Presse inc. v. Québec – Section 648(1) automatic publication ban applies before jury empanelled.
R. v. Dennis – Removal of defence counsel.
Attorney General of Canada v. Keenan – Media has the right to attend extradition and case management hearings.

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