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Collection Spotlight - February 24 2026

Do you need a helping hand drafting your criminal court documents? Are you struggling to figure out what forms you’ll need and how to complete them?

Then check out The Practitioner’s Criminal Precedents by Alan D. Gold! This title includes hundreds of precedents to help criminal lawyers draft the documents they need.

This title can help you draft precedents in all different areas of criminal practice, including:

  • Regularly used court forms necessary for the criminal law practitioner
  • Release, including bail variation forms and reviewing detention orders
  • Pre-trial issues and preliminary inquiry
  • Search and seizure
  • Trial and disposition
  • Charter considerations and applications
  • Sentencing
  • Appeals and judicial reviews
  • Extrajudicial proceedings

Each section also includes commentary about key points of law and ways the precedents can be used.

The Practitioner’s Criminal Precedents is available on the public access computers at all our Courthouse Libraries locations. Next time you’re in the library, search for the title in the library catalogue on the computer and click on the digital access link; this will take you straight to the digital title in LexisNexis. Individual precedents can be downloaded in Word so you can easily edit them.

We also have this title available in print. If you want to borrow the book or request scans through our document delivery service, please contact us at librarian@courthouselibrary.ca or 1-800-665-2570.

Check out our website to find your nearest Courthouse Libraries location: https://www.courthouselibrary.ca/about-us/locations-contact-information.