SOC225 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mens Rea, Regulatory Offence, Summary Offence
1 May 2014
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Other cases involves where the federal government used its criminal law power that grants the parliament of canada the authority to legislate on things ( such as the narcotic acts to band marijuana. What is the most important legislation has the canadian parliament enacted in the field of criminal law. Is it both the substantive criminal law and the procedural law. The substantive criminal law defines the nature of various criminal offences and specifies the various legal elements that must be present before a conviction can be entered against an accused peon. It also refers to the legislation that defines the nature and scope of such defines as provocation, duress and self-defense. For example, its helps to define offenses into three categories that include the indictable, summary conviction that are punishable and the mixed or the hybrid. In addition to the criminal code, number of other federal statues creates the criminal law.
