Criminal Law – Drug offences

• Cannabis Law by Bruce A. MacFarlane, Robert J. Frater, Croft Michaelson Table of Contents
• Defending drug cases, 4th ed. by Michael Bolton Table of Contents
• Drug Offences in Canada, 4th ed. by Bruce A. MacFarlane, Robert J. Frater, Chantal Proulx Table of Contents
• Drugs and Crime by Mangai Natarajan Table of Contents
• The Practical Guide to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, 4th ed. by Theresa M. Brucker Table of Contents
• Prosecuting and Defending Drug Offences by Peter M. Brauti & Brian G. Puddington Table of Contents
• Sentencing, 9th ed. by Clayton C. Ruby, Gerald J. Chan, Nader R. Hasan Table of Contents
• Sentencing: the Practitioner’s Guide by Gary R. Clewley et al. Table of Contents
• Sentencing Drug Offenders by Simon Armstrong Table of Contents
• Wigmore on cannabis: the forensic toxicology of marijuana for lawyers and other medicolegal professionals by James G. Wigmore Table of Contents also available as an e-text

• Published Annually: Tremeear’s criminal code : and the following related statutes, Canada Evidence Act, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Food and Drugs Act, Narcotic Control Act, Young Offenders Act by David Watt, Michelle K. Fuerst Table of Contents
• Crankshaw’s Criminal Code of Canada: R.S.C. 1985 by Gary P. Rodrigues Table of Contents
• Published Annually: Martin’s Annual Criminal Code by J.C. Martin Table of Contents
• The Practitioner’s Criminal Code by Alan D. Gold Table of Contents
• Snow’s Annotated Criminal Code by Rod Heather Table of Contents

E-Resources

When you visit one of our libraries, you have access to comprehensive caselaw databases:

• LexisAdvance® Quicklaw® 
• WestlawNext – Canada (LawSource)
• JustisOne
• ICLR

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In Print

• Canadian Criminal Cases (CCC)
• Criminal Reports (CR, CRNS)

A collection of the judgments of the Alberta Courts is available from CanLII. The official version of the reasons for judgment is the signed original or handwritten endorsement in the court file. If there is a question about the content of a judgment, the original court file takes precedence.

• CanLII – Provincial Court judgments
• CanLII – Court of Queen’s Bench judgments
• CanLII – Court of Appeal judgments

Canadian Legal Information Institute (CANLII) provides free searchable full-text access to Canadian case law. The scope of coverage varies by jurisdiction and court.

Boolean operators, proximity connectors, phrases and date restrictions can be incorporated into your query. Using the [Advanced Search] feature, you can select one or more jurisdictions to be searched, limit your search to appellate decisions, and restrict your search by type of tribunal.

You can also use CanLII to retrieve cases by citation or name.

E-Resources

The Canadian Abridgment available on:

WestlawNext – Canada (LawSource)

Canadian encyclopedic digest (C.E.D.) (Western), 4th ed. includes coverage of Federal, Provincial (4 Western provinces) and Territorial legislation.

Titles related to Drug Offences include:

• Criminal law – Defences. Volume 16, Title 40
• Criminal law – Offences. Volume 17 & 18, Title 41

The CED provides discussion of these areas of law with annotations to legislation and case law.

Also available electronically through: WestlawNext – Canada (LawSource)

Halsbury’s laws of Canada is a multi-volume set includes coverage of Federal, Provincial & Territorial legislation

This encyclopedia explains the legislation and cases which govern family law issues in every jurisdiction in Canada, allowing you to quickly locate, contextualize and apply the basic elements of the law.

Titles related to Drug Offences include:

• Controlled Drugs and Substances (HDS)
• Criminal Offences and Defences (HCR)

Additional information may be found under other topical headings, and subsequent developments may be located by referring to the Cumulative Supplement.

Also available electronically through: LexisAdvance® Quicklaw®