You are permitted to bring copies of these required readings to the exams in June and August. Students in the past have found that an annotated Criminal Code is extremely helpful, and I recommend that you get one. You may consider getting together with a couple of classmates and splitting the cost of a copy. There are numerous used copies available at the Carleton University Bookstore. This text, released in 1995 by Carswell, is a companion text to the Stuart and Delisle casebook.
Law dictionaries .
Some students have found Black's and other law dictionaries to be marginally helpful. These dictionaries are available at the library, and are recommended purchases only if you wish to place something truly impressive on your bookshelf. It is only fair to set out the instructor's bias at the outset of the course. Discussion of these concepts will inevitably include discussions of the social policies that led to the creation of various crimes and defences, but the approach is generally pragmatic. It is the instructor's ultimate objective that students be informed about the workings of the criminal justice system in Canada, with all its strengths and deficiencies, and that students who wish to criticize or defend the criminal justice system do so on the basis of facts and informed opinion rather than on emotion, gut feeling and anecdotal evidence.