GUILTY or NOT? / Glossary
Canadian legal glossary
Indictable offence
The more serious class of offence, carrying higher maximum penalties and, for many, a right to trial by judge and jury.
Cases that turn on it
The 2 real Canadian cases in the library whose brief uses this term. Read the facts, then decide — the verdict stays in the game.
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Two Rounds Into the Ceiling
2023
R v Ratt — Discharging a firearm into or at a place (s. 244.2(1)(a)) · Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan
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Nobody Saw the Gun
2007
R v Steele — Using a firearm in the commission of an indictable offence (s. 85(1)) · Supreme Court of Canada (British Columbia)
See also: Procedure
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