Sentences with phrase «admissions at a criminal trial»
Presently, through our rules of evidence, we can make judicial or formal admissions at a criminal trial pursuant to s 655 of the Criminal Code.
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At trial, Vancouver Criminal Defence Lawyer Emmet J. Duncan challenged the admission of the fingerprint match, on the basis that the original fingerprints, which police had taken from Client three years earlier when Client was a youth, were taken in violation of his rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
He described... «the general power of the judge (which existed at common law and is enshrined in section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984) to exclude any evidence relied on by the Crown... if its admission would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial that it ought not to be admitted».»
He has been an instructor in Trial Advocacy at The University of Calgary, Faculty of Law, and has lectured in criminal law at the Alberta Bar Admission Course, the Legal Education Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association.