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• Title:Sovereignty, restraint, & guidance : Canadian criminal law in the 21st century / Michael Plaxton.
  
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• Variant Title:Sovereignty, restraint, and guidance.
  Canadian criminal law in the 21st century
  
• Author/Creator:Plaxton, Michael, 1975- author.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto, ON : Irwin Law, 2019.
  ©2019
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KE8809 .P53 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Criminal law--Canada.
  
• Description:xv, 592 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"This book focuses on substantive Canadian criminal law - that which concerns offences, defences, and incapacity. Judges and courts, as they construe criminal offences, are engaged first and foremost in an exercise of statutory interpretation with a presumption of restraint. Courts and judges have approached offence elements relating to voluntariness and fault, defences, and claims of incapacity with the tacit understanding that Parliament's central aim in crafting criminal offences is not simply to set out the conditions under which legal officials are authorized to administer punishment, but to guide ordinary citizens as they decide how to act on a day-to-day basis. "-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes table of cases.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781552214992 paperback
  1552214990 paperback
  
• Contents:Introduction : three pillars of Canadian criminal law
  Mostly sovereign
  Reading criminal offences
  Common law expansions of criminal liability
  Courts constraining parliament? Restraint and de minimis
  Presuming restraint
  Consent and restraint in the law of assault
  "A complex piece of writing"
  A more modest principle of voluntariness
  Representative labelling
  Fault and guidance
  Mistake and moral proximity
  Guidance, culpability, and mistake of law
  Justifications, excuses, and institutional defences
  Incapacity and the ladder of agency
  Coda.