This outlines what your rights are upon arrest or detention.
What is Section 10 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
100
The person authorized to determine legal matters in court.
Who is the judge?
100
This very important document records the emotional, physical and financial effects of a crime on a victim.
What is a victim impact report?
100
The Youth Criminal Justice Act was introduced in this year.
When is 2003
200
The physical act of committing a crime.
What is actus reus?
200
Police can enter your home only after obtaining one of these.
What is a search warrant?
200
The initial step in a criminal proceeding to confirm the identity of the accused, formally read the charges, and asks how the accused pleads.
What is an arraignment?
200
The minimum size of a prison cell, with toilet, sink and bed, in Canada,
What is 2. 7 square metres?
200
According to the YCJA, the current age of criminal responsibility for youth.
What is 12 years old?
300
The 'guilty mind.'
What is mens rea?
300
What the police can request from a judge if they can demonstrate that the accused will not appear in court voluntarily through a summons.
What is an arrest warrant?
300
The examination of a witness by an opposing party to develop or test the truth of evidence given by the witness during direct examination.
What is cross-examination?
300
Denunciation, Deterrence, Separation from Society, and Rehabilitation.
What are the four purposes of sentencing?
300
This fourteen year old girl was beaten to death on Vancouver Island on November 14, 1997, setting off a legal battle that would last for twelve years.
Who is Reena Virk?
400
A crime of considerable severity, more serious than a summary offense.
What is an indictable offense?
400
The concrete reasons that there is evidence of a crime presented by police officers to a judge or justice of the peace in order to obtain a search warrant.
What are reasonable and probable grounds?
400
4. Refers to when any person shows disrespect to the court, or fails to obey the rules.
What is contempt of court?
400
This is the most important principle of sentencing, which insists that a sentence must be in balance with the crime committed and the responsibility of the offender.
What is “proportionality”?
400
The YCJA is not designed to be retributive. It is designed with this more progressive sense of justice.
What is restorative justice?
500
Knowingly not reporting a crime.
What is willful blindness?
500
For more serious offences, such as murder, the accused must convince the court that he or she should be allowed bail.
What is reverse onus?
500
The degree of proof needed in a proceeding for a party to prove a disputed assertion or charge.
What is burden of proof?
500
Peer sentencing and victim offender programs.
What are two forms of alternative sentencing?
500
The Justice Minister who recently released the federal government's new cyberbullying legislation.