United Nations Standards Reflected in the Canadian Criminal Justice System: The Right to Counsel

DATE

September 1, 1997

AUTHORS

Daniel Préfontaine, KC, Eileen Skinnider

YEARS

1997

POLICIES

Access to Justice / Justice Efficiency

United Nations Standards Reflected in the Canadian Criminal Justice System: The Right to Counsel

While international instruments such as declarations, principles, and guidelines have no legally binding effect, they can provide practical guidance and substance for the elaboration of conventional rights. This paper limits the focus of UN standards and norms in the administration of criminal justice to the right to counsel. This paper reviews the basic principles embodied in the international norm of the right to counsel and illustrates how that right is reflected in the Canadian criminal justice system.

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Daniel Préfontaine, KC

Senior Associate Emeritus

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Eileen Skinnider

Senior Associate

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