Glossary
In Criminal Law, Youth criminal justice
Extrajudicial Measures (EJMs) are a type of youth diversion.
Diversion is when criminal charges are taken out of the court and dealt with in a more informal way. That means dealing with your charges without having a trial or pleading guilty. If you accept EJM, your court case is put on hold while you:
- attend a program
- take a course, or
- complete other tasks away from the court
Once you finish your program, course, or other tasks, your court case will be closed.
If you accept EJM, you will have a youth record for 2 months. EJM records are much shorter than EJS records. A record for EJS lasts for 2 years.
The police can offer EJM before they charge you with a crime. The Crown can offer EJM after the police charge you.
In Criminal Law, Youth criminal justice
Extrajudicial Sanctions (EJSs) are a type of youth diversion.
Diversion is when criminal charges are taken out of the court and dealt with in a more informal way. That means dealing with your charges without having a trial or pleading guilty. If you accept EJS, your court case is put on hold while you:
- attend a program
- take a course, or
- complete other tasks away from the court
Once you finish your program, course, or other tasks, your court case will be closed.
EJS is the most serious type of youth diversion. If you accept EJS you will have a youth record for 2 years.
In Criminal Law
This is a criminal offence that is committed when a person is compelled to appear in court but fails to do so without a lawful excuse. A person can be compelled to appear in court by an appearance notice, an undertaking, or a recognizance, or by being bound over by a judge.
In Criminal Law
This is a criminal offence. You can be charged with “failing to comply” if you do the following on purpose:
- don’t follow a court order, or
- don’t follow a police undertaking.
For example, you can be charged with failing to comply if you don’t follow the conditions of your recognizance of bail.
In Criminal Law
You could be charged with “failure to comply with a demand” if you refuse to do something that the police have the right to tell you to do. For example, you could be charged if:
- the police have reasonable grounds to believe that you’re driving when you’re impaired and you refuse to give them a breath sample when they say you need to give them one.
In Abuse and Family Violence, Criminal Law, Family Law
Family violence refers to the many different forms of abuse, neglect, or harm that an adult or child may experience in their close, personal relationships.
It is also called domestic violence or partner abuse when one partner abuses the other partner.
In Criminal Law
A Feeney warrant is a type of arrest warrant that gives the police the power to come onto your property, and into your home or business to arrest the person whose name is in the warrant.
In Criminal Law, Types of Offences, Bail, Probation, and Court Attendance, Assault, Driving, Drugs, Firearms, Gender-based violence, Harassment, Mischief, Theft, Threats, Victims and witnesses
Forcible confinement is holding someone in a place without their permission. The confinement can be done using physical force. It can also be done using threats or intimidation to get someone to stay. The confinement must last longer than a few minutes for it to be a criminal offence. Forcible confinement often happens in the context of family violence or domestic assault. Examples of forcible confinement include locking someone in a room, tying them up, or threatening to hurt the person if they leave.
In Criminal Law, Types of Offences, Bail, Probation, and Court Attendance, Assault, Driving, Drugs, Firearms, Gender-based violence, Harassment, Mischief, Theft, Threats, Victims and witnesses
Gender-based crimes are criminal offences committed against a person because of their gender identity or gender expression. Gender-based crimes can happen between people in intimate relationships, friends, acquaintances, co-workers, and strangers. Anyone can be the victim of a gender-based crime, but girls, women, and gender-diverse people are at a higher risk of gender-based violence.
Some of the most common gender-based criminal offences are:
- voyeurism
- publication of an intimate image without consent
- criminal harassment or harassing communications
- assault and sexual assault
- uttering threats or extortion
- forcible confinement
- failing to comply with a court order or condition
In Criminal Law
When you’re charged with multiple crimes in different incidents, you can ask the Crown for a global resolution. This means the Crown agrees to deal with all the crimes together and to have all the charges resolved at once.
If your charges are at different courthouses, the Crowns at both locations have to agree before a global resolution can be considered. You may be able to negotiate a better plea position if you resolve your charges globally than if you proceeded with them separately.