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CRIMINAL LAW Cases and Materials Volume 1 Martha Shaffer Hamish Stewart Audrey Macklin Faculty of Law University of Toronto 2002-2003 These materials are distributed solely for use by students in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto These materials were prepared with the assistace of Nikki Gershbain mm BOM I.ASMN w AUG 2 8 2002 FACULTY OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF TOMIfTO CRIMINAL LAW Cases and Materials Volume 1 Martha Shaffer Hamish Stewart Audrey Macklin Faculty of Law University of Toronto 2002-2003 These materials are distributed solely for use by students in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto These materials were prepared with the assistace of Nikki Gershbain Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/details/criminallawcases01shaf_12 Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION.1 1 (a) Background and Context.1 A Note About These Materials.1 Crime in Canada: A Statistical Overview.2 A Criminological Perspective.10 1 (b) Limits on the Power to Create Criminal Law.11 1(b)(i) The Common Law and the Criminal Code.11 Shaw v. Director of Public Prosecutions.11 1(b)(ii) The Division of Powers.20 1(b)(iii) Preservation of Aboriginal Rights.23 1(b)(iv) Charter of Rights: Guarantee and Limitation of Rights.24 R. v. Oakes.24 Note: Subsequent Cases on the Presumption of Innocence.36 Further Reading.37 1(b)(v) Charter of Rights: Principles of Fundamental Justice.38 Reference Re: Section 94(2) of the Motor Vehicle Act.38 1 (c) Statutory Interpretation.52 1(c)(i) Principles of Statutory Interpretation.52 R. v. Goulis.52 * R. v. Pare.55 Problems.62 1(c)(ii) Charter of Rights: Vagueness and Overbreadth.63 R. v. Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society.63 R. v. Heywood.71 2. THE EXTERNAL ELEMENT.80 2(a) The Act Requirement.80 Rex v. Larsonneur.80 R. v. King.81 Kilbride v. Lake.86 Further Reading.89 IV 2(b) Liability for Omissions.90 ft v. Colucci.90 R. v. Instan.91 People i/. Beardsley.93 Moore v. The Queen.97 Fagan v. Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.105 R. v. Miller.107 2(c) Simultaneity.115 Thabo Meli and others v. The Queen.115 R. v. Cooper.116 2(d) Causation.122 2(d)(i) Cause in fact.122 R. v. Winning.122 2(d)(ii) Remoteness.123 British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited v. Loach.123 excerpt from E.H. Carr, What is History?.123 People v. Lewis.125 R. v. Jordan.127 R. v. Smith.129 R. v. Blaue.131 * R. v. Pagett.134 2(d)(iii) Standards for Causation.142 Sm it hers v. The Queen.142 * R. v. Harbottle.146 * Note: R. v. Nette.153 R. v. Cribbin.154 2(e) Defining the Actus Reus: Sexual Assault.162 R. v. Chase (N.B.C.A.).162 R. v. Chase (S.C.C.).164 R. v. V.(K.B.).168 Further Reading.169 * R. v. McCraw.169 Questions on McCraw.177 V 2(f) Defining the Actus Reus. Consent.179 R. v. Jobidon.179 * Problems based on Jobidon.200 R. v. Cuerrier.202 Questions and Notes on Cuerrier.229 * R. v. Ewanchuk (Alta. C.A.).230 * R. i/. Ewanchuk (S.C.C.).235 3. THE FAULT ELEMENT.249 3(a) Introduction.249 R. v. City of Sault Ste. Marie.249 3(b) Purpose, Intention, and Knowledge.254 R. v. Ste an e.254 R. v. Buzzanga and Durocher...258 R. v. Hibbert.270 Questions on Hibbert.284 Further reading.287 3(c) Wilful Blindness.288 Note on Wilful Blindness.288 R. v. Harding.289 Problem on Wilful Blindness.297 3(d) Criminal Negligence.299 R. v. Tutton and Tutton.299 R. v. Waite.313 Questions and Notes on Tutton and Waite.316 Further Reading.318 3(e) Constitutionally Required Fault.319 Vaillancourt v. The Queen.319 * R. i/. Martineau.330 Questions on Vaillancourt and Martineau.348 R. v. DeSousa.349 Questions on De Sousa.357 Note: R. v. Hundal.358 VI R. v. Creighton.362 Note: Companion Cases to Creighton.392 Problem.393 Further Reading.393 3(f) Fault in Regulatory Offences.394 R. v. City of Sault Ste. Marie.394 R. v. Wholesale Travel Group Inc.397 Question.417 Further Reading.417 3(g) Corporate Liability.418 Canadian Dredge & Dock Co. v. The Queen.418 3(h) Mistake of Fact.424 3(h)(i) The Relationship Between Mistake and Fault.424 R. v. Beaver..424 * R. v. Pappajohn.429 Note on Pappajohn.445 * Sans regret v. The Queen.448 Note on Sansregret...454 Note: Failing to Take Reasonable Steps.455 3(h)(ii) Constitutional Considerations.462 R. v. Nguyen; R. v. Hess.462 R. v. Darrach.468 3(h)(iii) Mistaking One Offence for Another.471 R. v. Kundeus.471 * R. v. Ladue.477 Further Reading For Chapter 3(h).478