CRM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Condom, Indian Reserve, Child Sexual Abuse

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Legal certainty (vagueness) & contempt of court 1. Strict construction of the criminal law 2. Purposive construction of the criminal law 2. Territorial and aged based restriction on cc application 4. Policy elements in the definition of actus reus 5. The coincidence of the actus reus and mens rea 6. How to answer fact pattern questions 8. Section 9 ccc: no person shall be convicted of an offence at common law, exception: contempt of court. For this to be considered an offence, parliament would need to write it in, not something the court could decide. United nurses of alberta v alberta (attorney general) (1992: nurses went on strike despite knowing that they were forbidden to do so, a crime does not need to be codified in the code to have authority in. R v. k. (b. ) (1995: co(cid:374)te(cid:373)pt of (cid:272)ou(cid:396)t (cid:449)as a (cid:448)iolatio(cid:374) of his cha(cid:396)te(cid:396) rights as he (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t a(cid:271)le to consult council.

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