Military Justice in Action: Annotated National Defence Legislation, Second Edition is a unique, fully annotated work containing the National Defence Act and the Queen's Regulations and Orders on an accompanying CD-ROM. It is a one-stop resource of key Canadian military legislation of relevance.

The book provides expert commentary by two leading experts: The Hon. (ret'd) Mr. Justice Gilles Létourneau, a former senior justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court, and the Federal Court of Appeal and professor Michel Drapeau (Colonel Ret'd), a military law professor and practitioner with prior command experience and service in the higher echelons of the Canadian Forces.

It includes a full discussion of the military rules of evidence, the Rules of the Courts Martial Appeal Court and their relation to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This edition includes a new chapter called "winds of change", which discusses proposals for the modernization of the Canadian military justice system.