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Collection Spotlight - July 23 2026

Do you need complete access to all Canadian criminal laws, or do you want to do comprehensive research yet significantly reducing the time spent?

Then Crankshaw's criminal code of Canada by James Crankshaw, John E Crankshaw, and Gary P Rodrigues is the book you need.

The eighth edition has been revised with the incorporation of the text of the R.S.C. 1985 version of the Criminal Code and 22 related Acts, and it contains:

  • Annotations of each section of the Code and the related Acts with a comprehensive collection of reported and unreported case law digests
  • A complete legislative history showing the actual wording of changes to the section.
  • Law Reform Commission reports
  • The Code and other related statutes

Crankshaw's criminal code of Canada is available on the public access computers at all our Courthouse Libraries BC locations. Next time you’re in the library, search for the title in the library catalogue on the computers and click on the digital access link; this will take you straight to the digital title in WestlawNext Canada.

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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