Talk:Criminal law in Canada
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[edit] stats wanted
- - Can someone put some stats about the general age of young law offenders-would help ALOT!!! ~Abeyeyie Kreeztalyz
- - I'm not sure that that information is released, since the identities of Youths are protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Perhaps you could look on Statistics Canada's website (http://www.statcan.ca) and dig them up? I would, but I'm not in the mood to attempt to navigate a complicated government (gasp!) website. Baribeau 00:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- - According to a fact sheet produced by the Law Courts Education Society in June of 2001, the stats for youth crime in 1997 were:
24% of crimes committed by youth were by 17-year-olds, 24% were by 16-year-olds, 22% by 15, 15% by 14, 8% by 13 and 3% by 12
[edit] Habeas Corpus
Is it a criminal offense to not advise a arbitrarily held prisoner of his rights to council?
In case I get lost my email is Criticalmassone@hotmail.com
No, it is not a criminal offence to fail to advise a prisoner of his/her right to counsel. However, if a police officer fails to do so and the prisoner makes incriminating statements then these statements may possibly be found to be inadmissible as evidence because the prisoner's rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms were violated. As well, it might also be considered unprofessional conduct and making a complaint against the police officer.
-Hairytoad (hairytoad2005@hotmail.com)
[edit] Criminal law under the Constitution Act, 1867
Why do we have these two articles separate with no links to each other? Granted, they're slightly distinct, but pretty intertwined. The article wouldn't be too long if they were combined. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 04:20, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- True they should be linked, but they should definitely not be merged. This article in about the substantive content of criminal law, the other is about the constitutional power to create criminal law (perhaps it should be called the "criminal law power under the constitution"). The principles behind the latter are in essence a matter of constitutional law and don't really have much bearing on the application of criminal law. At most there should be a nod to the provision of the constitution in this article. --PullUpYourSocks 03:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
I see no good reason to merge them. They should simply be linked. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.13.20.197 (talk • contribs) 17:34, February 28, 2007 (UTC)
- I would vote to keep them separate. It could be confusing for someone looking for information about the substance of Cdn criminal law, to find part of the article discussing federal-provincial issues. --Mathew5000 19:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
- I removed the merge tag. I hope there are no protests. -PullUpYourSocks 22:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
