By LegalMatters Staff • Many Canadians enjoy hunting game or fowl, especially in Alberta’s wilderness areas. But anyone taking up this sport needs to read the provincial regulations before setting out or they could face serious penalties. “The laws governing this activity can be confusing, especially to those new to the sport,” warns Calgary criminal […]
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By LegalMatters Staff • Legitimate firearm owners have long argued that gun control legislation singles out them instead of criminals using unregistered weapons. A recent Statistics Canada report confirms that position “Among homicides where information was available, the accused had a licence in only 13 per cent (16 out of 119 homicides) involving handguns and
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The lawyers at Dunn & Associates covered a wide range of criminal law in 2022. Greg Dunn kicked it off in January by noting that resource-rich Alberta led the country in fraud investigations. White-collar crime in Alberta can take many forms Later that month, Vincent Semenuk wrote about the penalities for theft and fraud, with
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You can be charged with fraud if police believe you committed an offence where a person or the public was defrauded of any property, money or valuable security or service. Statistics Canada reports there were nearly 40,000 incidents of cyber-related fraud across the nation in 2021. The StatsCan report adds that “while fraud is not
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According to Statistics Canada, intimate partner violence (IPV), including both spousal and dating violence, accounts for one in every four violent crimes reported to police. Overall, violence against dating partners was more prevalent than spousal violence, StatsCan states, adding that young Canadians were most often the complainants. Women and men in their late 20s and
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The theft of catalytic converters is on the rise across Canada, and Alberta is no exception. In 2021, there were 4,797 reported catalytic converter thefts in Alberta with 2,647 in Edmonton. According to the Edmonton Police Service, 1,449 SUVs, 756 trucks, 359 cars, 330 vans, 101 motorhomes and 96 buses were targeted for catalytic converter
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A news report states that an accounting firm looked at more than 200 criminal convictions for fraud across Canada in a six-year period and found that when it comes to the value of the fraud, resource-rich Alberta tops the list at a median loss of $1.25 million per case. To read more, click here. More
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The Calgary criminal law firm of Dunn & Associates took aim at a number of Criminal Code offences while commenting on ongoing issues that affected Albertans in 2021. In August, Matthew Deshaye wrote that how the charge of sexual assault is often misunderstood, as it includes any unwanted touching of another person without their consent.
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People facing a charge related to the production of any kind of narcotic could be looking at time behind bars upon conviction. The penalty you could be given depends on a number of factors, the two key ones being the type of narcotic produced and the amount. Those convicted of manufacturing “hard drugs” such as
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A fundamental premise of our judicial system is that juries should always be randomly drawn from the broadest pool of candidates as possible. That is why a recent decision by a justice with the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta should concern everyone. Addressing potential jurors in an upcoming Calgary sexual assault trial in September,
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