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IS EXTREME INTOXICATION A DEFENCE? – It hasn’t been for 25 years but it may be again.

Posted bywpengine 25 October 2019

Several provinces are examining the constitutionality of a thorny area of the criminal code

Source: Charter issues come to fore on defence of extreme cases of intoxication

Posted bywpengine25 October 2019Posted inUncategorized

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