Sovereignty, Restraint, & Guidance. Canadian Criminal Law in the 21st Century

- Publisher:
- Irwin Law Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2019-06-25
- Authors:
- Michael Plaxton
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55221-500-5
Index
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- About the author
- 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
- Table of cases
- Index
- Representative Labelling
- Preliminary sections