Criminal Law > Resources

Knowing Your Rights

• The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – The Charter is a bill of rights that is part of the Constitution of Canada.  It guarantees numerous civil and political rights including democratic rights, mobility rights and legal rights.  Knowing and understanding these rights is an integral part of the criminal process.

Find a Criminal Lawyer

• Legal Aid Ontario – Free legal help for criminal and family matters, clinic locations, obtaining legal aid certificates for private lawyers.  The firm accepts legal aid certificates.
  

• The Law Society of Upper Canada – Lawyer and paralegal regulation, finding a lawyer or paralegal, obtaining more information about your lawyer

Researching Your Criminal Charge

• The Canadian Criminal Code

• CanLii (Canadian Legal Information Institute) – Researching charges and cases by court, province, and decision date
  

Post-Conviction Resources

• Corrections Canada – Families of offenders, visiting programs, ethnocultural offenders
  

• Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services – Earned remission, facilities, treatment centers, inmate classification
  

• Court of Appeal for Ontario

• The Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted – Review and correction of wrongful murder convictions.

• National Parole Board – Conditional release and pardon decisions, clemency recommendations.

• John Howard Society – Integration back into the community, promotion of fair treatment for prisoners
  

• Pardons Canada – Removing past criminal offenses from public record, traveling to the United States, Citizenship and Immigration Issues

Criminal Courts in Ontario

• Superior Court of Justice

• Ontario Court of Justice

• List of Ontario Court Addresses

Government Criminal Law Services

• Department of Justice

• Attorney General for Ontario

Police Services

• Toronto Police

• Peel Regional Police

• Durham Regional Police