When determining if you’re admissible to Canada, check for youroffence’sequivalent crime under Canadian law at the time when the offence was committed. This can be done by cross-referencing criminal law in the
Aggravated assault Murder Reckless Driving/Operation Contrary to summary conviction offences, having a single indictable offence on your record can deem you inadmissible to Canada even if you weren’t convicted.Hybrid OffenceCanada has another category of offence called a hybrid offence. This means that...
In this chapter, I consider a common case where jurisdictions use aggravated assault—an assault by means likely to produce grievous bodily harm or death. By looking at several cases in depth, I show that certain courts use a guilt-by-association rule, sweeping in all HIV-positive individuals...
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What’s more, a criminal record could follow you forthe rest of your life. Even a seemingly minor conviction can restrict you from many career options, limit your travel to other countries including Canada, and impact you in thousands of ways you’d never think of. ...
gain admissibility to Canada. On the other hand, indictable offenses encompass more serious offenses in the criminal code, are subject to harsher punishments and lead to a criminal inadmissibility status. An example of an indictable offense is aggravated sexual assault (Section 273(1)Criminal Code)...
Types of criminal offenses vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but they are generally divided into those that are more serious (felonies in the United States and indictable offenses in Canada) and those that are less serious (misdemeanors in the United States and summary conviction offenses in Ca...
R., for sentencing purposes only, who had been convicted at trial of a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm after a prior felony conviction (and prior three year prison sentence) for aggravated assault. The state argued for a ten year prison sentence with a three year ...
Since its publication in 1962 the American Model Penal Code has been the model for the enact- ment of completely new criminal codes by a large majority of states in the union.154 Other common law jurisdictions have adopted criminal codes, including Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Ireland is...
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