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 resource and has been consulted

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

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

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

the same language.

This third edition maintains the overall structure and approach of

the f‌irst two editions. Rob Currie 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: Chris 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 Fraser; Benoit Gomis; and Seth Weinstein. Rob

Currie wishes to thank, in particular: Laura Ellyson, doctoral student at

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

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

stalwart research efforts in updating Chapter 7.