From: jock@soccer.com

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:33:11 +0000 (UTC), John Levine 
wrote:

>>>As has been outlined in that newspaper report, the next step in the
>>>process is the court appearance in September.  Follow it, and
>>>appreciate that Canada's legal system is not American.
>>
>>State courts in the United States uses a legal system based on the English
>>legal system. What's Canada's based on, Somalia's? I found a Web page
>>of a criminal attorney in Toronto that refers to preliminary hearings,
>>but for all I know, Quebec has exceptional procedures.
>
>Quebec law is based on pre-Napoleonic French law, but the criminal
>procedures seem to be mostly harmonized with the rest of Canada.

The Criminal Code is federal... adminisitration of justice is
provincial.



>The Canadian legal system only separated from the British in the 20th
>century, so there really are significant differences from US practice.
>As a trivial example, lawyers still wear wigs and robes in court.
>(I've seen them.)
>
>There will indeed be a preliminary hearing.  That's what will happen
>in September.

There are court appearances set for the three accused in September.
What will be played out isn't clear.

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