The bail hearing process is one of the most important aspects in which a judge will determine whether…

In some circumstances, individuals are released with restrictive and/or intrusive bail conditions…

If you are not released after your bail hearing, you will be held in custody and considered detained…

These offences are governed by the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act which is federal legislation…

Some offences include the possession, unregistered use and trafficking of firearms…

The Criminal Code of Canada defines a criminal organization as a group that is composed of three or more persons in or outside Canada and that has as one of its main purposes…

A person commits assault when: a) without the consent of another person, he applies force intentionally to that other person directly or indirectly…

The offence of sexual assault captures an extremely wide range of behaviour. Any physical application of force that is not consensual…

Domestic violence can include; physical violence with the use of hands, objects or weapons…

Everyone commits robbery who: a) steals and for the purpose of extorting whatever is stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to the stealing…

Everyone who, by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means, whether or not it is a false pretence, defrauds the public or any person…

Everyone commits theft who fraudulently and without colour of right takes, or fraudulently and without colour of right converts to his use or to the use of another person, anything…

Essentially, attempted murder is a failed attempt to commit murder. Like 1st and 2nd degree murder, the Crown must prove that there was a specific intent to harm another person…

Canadian law defines manslaughter as "a homicide committed without the intention to cause death, although there may have been an intention to cause harm".

Murder is first-degree murder when it is planned and deliberate. A person commits homicide when, directly or indirectly, by any means, he causes the death of a human being…

All murder that is not first-degree murder is second-degree murder.