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 and Driving Offences, 4th 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
• Impaired Driving in Canada, 4th ed. by Joseph Kenkel Table of Contents
• Impaired Driving in Canada the Charter Cases, 5th 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.

• 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
• Published Annually: 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

For more information on finding cases see our research guide : Finding and researching cases

In Print

• 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

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.

E-Resources

The Canadian Abridgment available on:

WestlawNext – Canada (LawSource)

Statutes

Statutes

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

Titles related to Impaired Driving include:

• Constitutional Law. Volume 12, Title 32
• Criminal law – Defences. Volume 16, Title 40
• Criminal law – Offences. Volume 17, Title 41
  • Driving Offences
• Criminal Law – Procedure. Volume 19, Title42
• Motor Vehicles. Volume 40, Title 105
• Sentencing. Volume 51, Title 144
  • 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: WestlawNext – Canada (LawSource)

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

Also available electronically through: LexisAdvance® Quicklaw®

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 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, and subsequent developments may be located by referring to the Cumulative Supplement.