Visit your local courthouse library to use this key criminal database to answer your criminal-related research queries, quickly and efficiently including case law, textbooks, criminal codes, legislation and other commentary. Experienced library staff can assist you with your query as well. CriminalSource is available to all lawyers in Ontario to use at their local courthouse library.
LiRN’s subscription to CriminalSource (includes Commentary Levels 1 & 2) consists of:
- Extensive criminal codes, texts by noted experts, and case law including the C.C.C.s
- Access sentencing and procedural options for common Criminal Code offences
- Search digests of sentencing quantum decisions
Case Law
- Canadian Criminal Cases
- Weekly Criminal Bulletin
- Dominion Law Reports — criminal-related cases and decisions only
- All-Canada Weekly Summaries — criminal-related cases and decisions only
- CriminalSource contains a comprehensive collection of criminal, constitutional, evidence, motor vehicle, and immigration cases from all Canadian jurisdictions.
Legislation
The CriminalSource legislation database contains the full text of all federal, provincial, and territorial legislation essential to a criminal law practice.
- Martin’s Annual Criminal Code & Martin’s Related Criminal Statutes
- Tremeear’s Criminal Code and Tremeear’s Annotations
- Crankshaw Criminal Code (13 volumes)
- Annotated Ontario Rules of Criminal Practice
Text Collection – essential criminal law texts by respected lawyers, academics, and members of the judiciary
- Criminal Pleadings & Practice in Canada (Ewaschuk)
- Canadian Criminal Code Offences (Gibson & Waldock)
- Canadian Criminal Procedure (Salhany)
- Canadian Sentencing Digest (Nadin-Davis et al.)
- Crankshaw’s Criminal Code of Canada – 13 volumes
- Criminal Law Evidence, Practice and Procedure (Gibson & Waldock)
- Disclosure & Production in Criminal Cases (Segal)
- Drug Offences in Canada (MacFarlane)
- McWilliam’s Canadian Criminal Evidence
- Sentencing: The Practitioner’s Guide (Clewley, McDermott, Young)
- Watt’s Manual of Criminal Evidence
- Youth Criminal Justice Act Manual (Harris & Bloomenfeld)
Law Journals and Articles
- Annual Review of Criminal Law
- Canadian Criminal Cases – Articles
- Canadian Criminal Law Review
- Criminal Law Quarterly
- Criminal Reports – Articles
- Crown’s Newsletter (annual)
- For the Defence – The Criminal Lawyers’ Association Newsletter
- Mack’s Criminal Law Bulletin
- Motor Vehicle Reports – Articles
- National Journal of Constitutional Law
- Neuberger’s Sexual Assault Law Updates
- Police Powers Newsletter
- RegQuest
- Segal’s Motor Vehicle and Impaired Driving Newsletter
- Watt’s Criminal Law and Evidence Newsletter
- Weekly Criminal Bulletin Review
Finding Tools
Carswell’s Criminal Law Digest
A collection of case law digests, organized by offence, evidentiary issue, or general criminal subject
Martin’s Offence Grid, from Martin’s Annual Criminal Code
A valuable reference for ascertaining available sentences and penalties for offences under the Criminal Code.
Tremeear’s Offence Tables -with Sentencing & Procedure Options (David Watt and Justice Michelle Fuerst)
A valuable reference for ascertaining maximum and minimum sentences, assessing ranges, and evaluating options and orders.
Check our CPD and Other Events page to find live CriminalSource training dates that are CPD-accredited for Professionalism.
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