Preface and acknowledgements

• Author: Joseph Rikhof/Robert J Currie
• Pages: 31-32

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PREFACE AND

ACK NOW LED GEM ENTS

We continue to be pleased and humbled by the positive reception this

text has received. It has now been quoted or cited by the Supreme Court

of Canada, a plurality of senior appellate courts, trial judges, and tribu-

nals. It is regularly used as a teaching re source and has been consulted

and cited by academics and rese archers of every stripe. We remain ever

hopeful that we are helpfully contributi ng to the overall ability of inter-

national lawyer s and criminal lawyers to, as we say in Ch apter 1, speak

the same lang uage.

This third edition maintains t he overall structure and approach of

the f‌irst two editions. Rob Curr ie is responsible for updating chapters 2,

7, 8, 9, and 10, while Joseph Rikhof has updated chapters 3, 4, 5, and 12.

Both authors collaborated on updating chapter s 1 and 6. Gillian MacNeil,

the leading author of Chapter 11 in the f‌irst two editions, has updated

that chapter. We have tried to state the law as of November 2019.

As usual, we are gratef ul for the help and advice of numerous friends

and colleagues, including: Chr is Ram; Sabine Nölke; Col Bruce Mac-

Gregor, CD, QC; Erin Cassidy; Phillip Saunders, QC; Aldo Chircop;

Leah West; Gib van Ert; Joanna H arrington; Craig Forcese; Darin Reeve s;

Bryant Mackey; David Fra ser; Benoit Gomis; and Seth Weinstein. Rob

Currie wishes to t hank, in par ticular: Laura Ellyson, doctoral student at

the Schulich School of Law, for coherent, timely, and insightful research

support for the updates; and Jessica Dawkin s (JD Dalhousie, 2019) for

stalwart rese arch efforts in updat ing Chapter 7.