Alex Gorlewski

Thoroughly revised and updated, The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure is a general reference book on Canadian criminal procedure. It covers the major steps of the criminal process in rough sequence. These include, but are not limited to, search and seizure, detention and arrest, bail, disclosure and production, pre-trial motions, jury selection, appeals, and sentencing. This book presents the law visually with a series of approximately 75 charts and diagrams. Each of these are accompanied by a set of annotations that summarize the specific legal provisions and case law applicable to each step of individual criminal processes. Legal experts Steve Coughlan and Alex Gorlewski bridge the gap between conventional legal textbooks and annotated Criminal Codes through an indispensable format containing a dynamic combination of charts, diagrams, and written commentary beneficial for all types of learners. This edition introduces brand new sections on pleas, record suspensions, victim surcharges, and conditional sentences and offers a step-by-step guide to the real-world applications of current criminal procedure. Whether used as a standalone or alongside traditional legal texts, The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure is an essential companion for practitioners and students seeking a more intelligible and accessible understanding of Canadian criminal procedure.

Criminal law is a powerful legal tool in Canadian society consisting of numerous procedural rules but little organization. Provisions of the Criminal Code that are directly relevant to each other are often separated by many different (and usually irrelevant) sections and subsections. The common law rules of criminal procedure, meanwhile, are often established incrementally, in numerous cases decided over a long period of time. With both the Code and common law, it can be difficult and time-consuming to assemble and explain the entire legal framework governing a particular police power or court procedure. This deficiency in the law is what led authors Steve Coughlan and Alex Gorlewski to create a comprehensible resource that clarifies the relationships among the individual statutory provisions and the common law rules of criminal procedure. The Anatomy of Criminal Procedure: A Visual Guide to the Law illustrates the law of criminal procedure through nearly seventy annotated charts and diagrams. Across the whole criminal process -- from search and seizure to appeals and sentencing -- this book consolidates the statutory and common law rules around each step, visually depicts how they fit together, and explains in detailed annotations how the rules work and have been interpreted by courts. This is a valuable text for practitioners who work with the criminal process every day, as well as for students learning it for the first time. Coughlan and Gorlewski aim to outline the law as it was created and implemented by our institutions, while providing the coherence it sometimes lacks yet certainly requires.