Collection Spotlight - November 4 2025

Looking for guidance on youth criminal cases? Need to find caselaw about youth sentencing principles or publication bans?

If so, then the Annotated Youth Criminal Justice Act by Rochelle Direnfeld et al. is the book for you!

This title contains annotations and commentary for each section of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, including:

  • Notice to parents
  • Sentencing provisions
  • Interprovincial arrangements
  • Publication bans
  • And more!

This title also contains:

  • Court forms regarding many facets of youth criminal justice practice, like extrajudicial and judicial measures, conferences, pre-trial detention, and more
  • A table of concordance comparing sections of the former Young Offenders Act and the Youth Criminal Justice Act
  • Checklists for both adult and youth sentencing
  • Rules for taking statements

Annotated Youth Criminal Justice Act 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 LexisAdvance. Important to note – you can download pages from this electronic title in PDF or Word, making editing the included court forms a breeze!

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.

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