The 2025 Annotated Mental Disorder Provisions of the Criminal Code, Part.1 offers an essential, updated resource for legal and mental health professionals. This volume focuses exclusively on the mental disorder provisions of the Criminal Code, incorporating updates that reflect recent statutory amendments and new case law.
Designed for practitioners working with mentally disordered accused individuals, the book offers clear annotations alongside the full legislative text. It covers key areas such as fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibility under section 16 of the Criminal Code, as well as assessment orders, treatment impasses, expert evidence, and more. This edition also includes practical insights, relevant case law, and helpful appendices, including the Ontario Review Board’s Rules of Procedure and necessary legal forms.
Published annually, The 2025 Annotated Mental Disorder Provisions of the Criminal Code serves as a concise, up-to-date guide to the ever-evolving field of mental disorder law in Canada. It is an ideal resource for Review Board members, legal practitioners, and anyone involved in mental health proceedings within the criminal justice system.
1. Section 2, Definitions
2. Section 672.1(1), Definitions
3. Defence of Mental Disorder: Section 16
4. Assessment Orders
5. Assessment Reports
6. Protected Statements
7. Fitness to Stand Trial
8. Verdict of Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder
9. Review Boards
10. Disposition Hearings
11. Dispositions by a Court or Review Board
12. Terms of Dispositions
13. High-Risk Accused
14. Dual Status Offenders
15. Appeals
16. Review of Dispositions
17. Power to Compel Appearance
18. Stay of Proceedings
19. Interprovincial Transfers
20. Enforcement of Orders and Regulations
Appendix A: Fitness to Stand Trial and Criminal Responsibility: An
Introductory Overview
Appendix B: Criminal Code Forms
Table of Cases
Index
Richard D. Schneider is a justice of the Ontario Court of Justice, an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and an adjunct professor of forensic science at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Caitlin Pakosh is an assistant Crown attorney in Newmarket, Ontario, and an assistant professor in the Department of Forensic Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Lora Patton is a lawyer, teacher, researcher, and former counsel to the director of the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Ontario.
