Criminal Law – Impaired Driving

• Abridged Wigmore on alcohol : courtroom alcohol toxicology for the medicolegal professional by James Wigmore  Table of Contents. Also available as an e-text.
• Breathalyzer Law in Canada : the Prosecution and Defence of Drinking, Drugs and Driving Offences, 5th ed. by Roderick McLeod, John Takach, Murray Segal Table of Contents
• Criminal Code Driving Offences: companion text for Breathalyzer Law in Canada by Roderick M. McLeod, John D. Takach, Murray D. Segal Table of Contents
• Defending Drinking, Drugs and Driving Cases by Alan Gold Table of Contents
• Drug-impaired driving in Canada by Nathan Baker Table of Contents Also available as an e-text.
• A Guide to breathalyzer certificates in Canada by Alan Pearse
• Impaired Driving and Breathalyzer Law: recent case law by Keith R. Hamilton Table of Contents
• Impaired Driving and other Criminal Code driving offences: a practitioner’s handbook by Karen Jokinen & Peter Keen Table of Contents. Also available as an e-text
• Impaired Driving in Canada, 5th ed. by Joseph Kenkel Table of Contents
• Impaired Driving in Canada the Charter Cases, 4th ed. by Joseph Kenkel Table of Contents
• Understanding all Impaired Driving Devices: their history, problems, foibles and merits and why these devices and support systems had to come into existence by Paul D. Haines 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.

• 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
• Martin’s Annual Criminal Code by J.C. Martin Table of Contents
• Practitioner’s Criminal Code by Alan D. Gold Table of Contents
• Snow’s Annotated Criminal Code by Rod Heather Table of Contents

• ICLR
• LexisAdvance® Quicklaw® 
• vLex Justis
• Westlaw Canada

• Canadian Criminal Cases (CCC)
• Criminal Reports (CR, CRNS)
• Motor Vehicle Reports (MVR)

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

E-Resources

The Canadian Abridgment available on: Westlaw Canada

Statutes

Statutes

Canadian encyclopedic digest (C.E.D.) (Western)

Sections related to Impaired Driving include:

• Constitutional Law. 
• Criminal law – Defences.
• Criminal law – Offences.
  • Driving Offences
• Criminal Law – Procedure. 
• Motor Vehicles. 
• Sentencing.
  • Driving Offences

The CED provides discussion of these areas of law with annotations to legislation and case law.  Additional information may be found by searching the indexes or database using the keywords “impaired driving,”  “driving while impaired,” “breathalyzer,” “breath sample,” “blood sample,” etc.

Also available electronically through: Westlaw Canada

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

Also available electronically through: LexisAdvance® Quicklaw®

Titles related to Impaired Driving include:

• Constitutional Law (Charter of Rights) (HCHR)
• Criminal Offences (HCR)
• Evidence (HEV)
• Motor Vehicles (HMV)
• Public Health (HPH)

Additional information may be found under other topical headings.

• LexisAdvance® Quicklaw® includes Impaired Driving NetLetter by the Hon. Justice Joseph F. Kenkel
• Westlaw Canada includes Segal’s Motor Vehicle and Impaired Driving Newsletter and contains a collection of Canadian journals and law reviews, as well as all articles and case comments appearing in Carswell law reports.
• HeinOnline – includes the Criminal Law Quarterly and Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Provides full-text access to Canadian and international law reviews and legal journals.

• Canada Criminal Law Review
• Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice – Abstracts also available online
• Criminal Law Quarterly
• For the Defence Criminal Lawyers’ Association Newsletter
• Motor Vehicle Reports (Articles)