The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure: A Visual Guide to the Law - Softcover

Coughlan, Steve; Gorlewski, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552215059 ISBN 13: 9781552215050

Publisher: Irwin Law, 2019

Synopsis

Criminal law is a powerful legal tool in Canadian society consisting of numerous procedural rules but little organization. Provisions of the Criminal Code that are directly relevant to each other are often separated by many different (and usually irrelevant) sections and subsections. The common law rules of criminal procedure, meanwhile, are often established incrementally, in numerous cases decided over a long period of time. With both the Code and common law, it can be difficult and time-consuming to assemble and explain the entire legal framework governing a particular police power or court procedure. This deficiency in the law is what led authors Steve Coughlan and Alex Gorlewski to create a comprehensible resource that clarifies the relationships among the individual statutory provisions and the common law rules of criminal procedure.

The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure: A Visual Guide to the Law illustrates the law of criminal procedure through nearly seventy annotated charts and diagrams. Across the whole criminal process — from search and seizure to appeals and sentencing — this book consolidates the statutory and common law rules around each step, visually depicts how they fit together, and explains in detailed annotations how the rules work and have been interpreted by courts. This is a valuable text for practitioners who work with the criminal process every day, as well as for students learning it for the first time. Coughlan and Gorlewski aim to outline the law as it was created and implemented by our institutions, while providing the coherence it sometimes lacks yet certainly requires.

About this title

About the Authors

Steve Coughlan has taught at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, since 1990. He is the author of Criminal Procedure, 3d ed (Irwin Law) and other books about criminal law and procedure. He is a co-editor of the Criminal Reports and a co-author of the National Judicial Institute Criminal Law e-Letter.

Alex Gorlewski is a graduate of the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. He is currently an LLM candidate at Queen's University, researching the histories of evidentiary and procedural rules in sexual assault trials.

Edition details

• Publisher: Irwin Law
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552215059
• ISBN 13: 9781552215050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434