Quickly find important cases so you can present your arguments with confidence. Authoritative commentary, case summaries, and cross-references help you understand how the parts of the Criminal Code interact. Defense, Crown, and the judiciary all trust the indispensable annotations and commentary in Annotated Tremeear's Criminal Code.

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Thousands of Supreme Court of Canada and Court of Appeal decisions
Cross-references to appropriate specimen jury instructions (Watt's Manual of Criminal Jury Instructions)
Offense Sentencing Tables, published as a separate volume, for ascertaining maximum and minimum sentences, assessing ranges, and evaluating options and orders

This edition incorporates a wealth of new annotations and commentary updates based on recent and significant case law, including the following decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada:

R. v. Zacharias, 2023 SCC 30, 431 C.C.C.(3d) 421: The court must excise unlawfully obtained evidence from the factual matrix to determine whether police had reasonable and probable grounds for an arrest.
R. v. Johnson, 2023 SCC 24, 432 C.C.C.(3d) 139: For a person to be found guilty as an aider of a planned and deliberate first-degree murder, the Crown must prove that the person knew the principal intended to kill the victim in a planned and deliberate way.
R. c. Brunelle, 2024 SCC 3, 432 C.C.C.(3d) 281: An infringement of section 7 of the Charter may result solely from the fact that state conduct-caused prejudice to the integrity of the justice system.
R. v. Kruk, 2024 SCC 7, 433 C.C.C.(3d) 301: The use of common-sense assumptions in assessing witness credibility and reliability is controlled by the existing standard of review for findings of fact, which is palpable and overriding error.
R. v. Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6, 433 C.C.C.(3d) 423: There is a reasonable expectation of privacy in an IP address, making a request for an IP address is a search under section 8 of the Charter.
R. v. B.E.M., 2023 SCC 32, 92 C.R.(7th) 66: Personal anecdotes have no place in closing addresses and are fundamentally at odds with the prosecutor's role.
R. v. Tayo Tompouba, 2024 SCC 16, 435 C.C.C.(3d) 285: The first appearance judge has an informational duty under section 530(3) to ensure the accused is advised of their fundamental right to be tried in the official language of their choice.
R. v. Hodgson, 2024 SCC 25, 438 C.C.C.(3d) 315: The fault element in manslaughter requires an objective foreseeability of the risk of bodily harm, and in murder, proof of subjective intent to cause death or bodily harm.
R. v. Lozada, 2024 SCC 18, 436 C.C.C.(3d) 76: The overall test for legal causation for manslaughter is whether the accused's unlawful acts were a significant contributing cause of the victim's death.
R. v. T.W.W., 2024 SCC 19, 437 C.C.C.(3d) 1: Decisions on the relevance of section 276 evidence are reviewable on a standard of correctness, but those on admissibility are subject to deference.
Canada (Attorney General) v. Power, 2024 SCC 26, 440 C.C.C.(3d) 1: The state does not have absolute immunity from liability for damages when it enacts unconstitutional legislation that infringes Charter rights.
R. v. Archambault, 2024 SCC 35, 441 C.C.C.(3d) 145: The amendment to section 535 restricting the availability of preliminary inquiries to offences punishable on conviction by a maximum sentence of 14 years or more is procedural in nature, but affects a substantive right, that of discharge under section 548(1)(b).
R. v. Wolfe, 2024 SCC 34, 98 C.R. (7th) 217: Section 320.24(4) does not authorize driving prohibitions for convictions of criminal negligence causing death or criminal negligence causing bodily harm.

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