Watt's manual of criminal jury instructions

Please see the attached PDF file below for a detailed listing of the table of contents

2024 edition

PART I - PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS

• I. Opening Instructions to Jury Panel and Jury Selection 
• II. Preliminary Instructions to Jury 
  • A. Introduction
  • B. Trial Procedure 
  • C. Fundamental Principles 
  • D. Concluding Instructions 

PART II - MID-TRIAL INSTRUCTIONS 

PART III - FINAL INSTRUCTIONS 

• A. Duties of Jurors 
• B. General Principles 
• C. Principles of Evidence 
  • 1. Types of Evidence 
  • 2. Rules of Evidence 
  • 3. Special Instructions 
  • 4. Modes of Participation 
• D. Offences 
  • 1. Firearms and Other Weapons 
  • 2. Offences Against Administration of Justice 
  • 3. Sexual Offences 
  • 4. Criminal Negligence 
  • 5. Homicide and Related Crimes 
  • 6. Assaults and Other Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person 
  • 7. Driving Offences 
  • 8. Kidnapping, Unlawful Confinement and Abduction 
  • 9. Offences Against Property and Property Rights 
  • 10. Currency Offences 
  • 11. Proceeds of Crime 
  • 12. Preliminary Crimes 
  • 13. Drug Offences 
• E. Defences 
• F. Concluding Instructions 
• G. In Deliberation Instructions 
• F. Post-Verdict Instructions
• Table of Cases