Zamani Law Blog

Can You Be Charged with Watching Animated Child Pornography?

Being accused of a child pornography-related offence is extremely distressing. Not only do you have to deal with the police and the criminal justice system, but you also face an uncertain future of potential reputational damage, social ostracism, and job loss. If convicted, you may have to serve time, and...

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How Alcohol Complicates Sexual Assault Charges

Sexual assault allegations are highly distressing for both the victim and the accused. Victims are loath to relive the event when offering evidence, and the alleged assailants face the possibility of social exclusion, career loss, and ongoing stigmatization. To add to this, the sexual assault laws in Canada are complex,...

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What to Do If You’ve Been Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault

An allegation of sexual assault can have a devastating effect on the accused. Their career, reputation, and relationships could all be ruined, and they might serve time in prison. In this post, we’ll go through what sexual assault means under the Criminal Code of Canada and talk about what you...

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Charged with Voyeurism? What to Do Next

Voyeurism has been a crime under the Criminal Code of Canada (the Code) since 2005, punishable by up to five years in prison. If the Crown proves that the accused person also intended to commit certain other sexually-based crimes while engaging in the voyeurism (ex: recording minors and intending to...

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Can You Travel with a DUI From Canada?

Impaired driving is a criminal offence in Canada that carries serious penalties if you’re convicted, even if it’s your first offence. While any criminal conviction affects your ability to travel internationally, there is a great deal of variability in how it affects it. Let’s address some of the most common...

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Books On The Shelves

Defending Sexual Assault allegations in Canada

Defending sexual assault allegations involves understanding the essential components of the charge to determine whether or not the allegations can be supported by evidence in court. The Crown must prove each of the elements of sexual assault, as set out in the Criminal Code of Canada. This is called making...

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Coronovirus

COVID-19 Bail Roundup

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has drastically changed the way we live and work. Those changes have touched almost every aspect of normal day to day dealings. That includes the justice system, and applications for bail. A number of important cases dealing with bail in a post-COVID19...

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Shocked Girl

Extortion Offence: A Primer

We’ve all heard about blackmail. It appears in movies, games, and literature. But, the reality is that there is no ‘blackmail’ offence in Canada’s Criminal Code. Instead, under section 346, we have the offence of ‘extortion’. Extortion punishes those who, through threats, accusations, menaces, or violence, induce or attempt to...

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Criminal Code incidents

Theft: Canada’s #1 Crime

In 2017 the police reported over 1,900,000 Criminal Code incidents. The most common offence of all was theft of personal property under $5,000[i]. The theft of personal property made up 34% of reported crimes. Theft of household property made up another 12%, and theft of a motor vehicle or parts...

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A Bit Of A Background On Bail

A Bit Of A Background On Bail

Bail is a hot topic. Before you go to jail, you may first get bail. In fact, you have a right to it under section 11(e) of the charter. Any person charged with an offence has the right not to be denied reasonable bail without just cause . ‘Just cause’...

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Amber Alerts

Be Aware of Amber Alerts and Abductions

Ontario has had 5 Amber Alerts this year, and each one has attracted multiple calls from the public complaining about the Alert. Lots of people have been calling for people complaining 911 about Amber alerts to face consequences. Thankfully, this time around, the 5 children from Jordan, Ontario who went...

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Crimes of Dishonesty I False Pretences In the Criminal Code

Crimes of Dishonesty I: False Pretences In the Criminal Code

A Winnipeg property developer is charged with taking over $425,000 for work he allegedly never did . He was charged with the crime of ‘false pretences’, which can be found at section 362 of the Criminal Code. The developer allegedly used white-out on the job site locations on invoices, and...

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