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DNA Identification Act (Canada)
{{no footnotes, date=May 2014 The ''DNA Identification Act'' is a Canadian law that calls for the establishment of a DNA databank and allows judges to order DNA testing for criminal suspects. The Act received Royal Assent on 10 December 1998. The Act was confirmed in the 2006 R. v. Rodgers Supreme Court case. External linksText of the DNA Identification Act at the Ministry for Justice*http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2006/2006scc15/2006scc15.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20140518213442/http://bccla.org/privacy-handbook/main-menu/privacy7contents/privacy7-10/ *http://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2013/grc-rcmp/PS61-4-2012-eng.pdf Canadian federal legislation 1998 in Canadian law Canadian criminal law Evidence law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Federal Legislation
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Canadian Law
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (''Very strong''). With up to 4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Criminal Law
The criminal law of Canada is under the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada. The power to enact criminal law is derived from Criminal law under the Constitution Act, 1867, section 91(27) of the ''Constitution Act, 1867''. Most criminal laws have been Codification of law, codified in the ''Criminal Code (Canada), Criminal Code'', as well as the ''Controlled Drugs and Substances Act'', ''Youth Criminal Justice Act'' and several other peripheral statutes. Prosecution In all Canadian provinces and territories, criminal prosecutions are brought in the name of the "King in Right of Canada". A person may be prosecuted criminally for any offences found in the ''Criminal Code'' or any other federal statute containing criminal offences. There are two basic types of offences. The most minor offences are Summary offence#Canada, summary conviction offences. They are defined as "summary" within the Act and, unless otherwise stated, are punishable by a fine of no mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
