Lexis Advance^® Quicklaw^® Update
Improvements to Legal Topics
February 2023

We update our Legal Topics classification on an ongoing basis to ensure it reflects recent legal developments, legislative changes, and emerging topics, and to add granularity to important areas. Here are our most recent additions:

• Criminal Law: we have added 22 new criminal law legal topics to our English and French classifications, covering offences under the Criminal Code, sentencing, and extraordinary remedies.

• Family Law: we have added 27 new family law topics across our common law and civil law classifications, in the areas of child support calculation and the matrimonial home.

• Tort Law: we have added 9 new tort law topics to our common law classification, covering the vicarious liability of employers, independent contractors, and parents or guardians, and tort law defences such as acts of God and voluntary assumption of risk.

• Health Law: we have added the topic Tobacco and vaping products to our civil law classification.

To access the full Legal Topics classification, go to Browse > Topics on Lexis Advance Quicklaw. From there you will be able to select a topic and run a search across all content types, including case law, legislation, and secondary materials.

Please find below the list of our most recently released Legal Topics:

Criminal Law

• Criminal Code Offences
  • Attempts, conspiracies and accessories (463 to 467.2 Cr.C.)
    • Accessories (23 and 463 Cr.C.)
    • Conspiracies (465 to 466 Cr.C.)
    • Participation in criminal organization (467.11 to 467.2 Cr.C.)
  • Offences against person and reputation
    • Assaults > Sexual assault > Consent (273.1 Cr.C.)
      • Honest but mistaken belief (273.2 Cr.C.)
  • Offences against public order
  • Offences in relation to terrorism (83.01 to 83.33 Cr.C.)
  • Offences against the administration of law and justice (118 to 149 Cr.C.) > Misleading justice (131 to 143 Cr.C.)
    • Public mischief (140 Cr.C.)
  • Sexual offences, public morals, disorderly conduct and nuisances (150 to 182 Cr.C.) > Sexual offences (150.1 to 162 Cr.C.)
    • Invitation to sexual touching (152 Cr.C.)
    • Publication of intimate image without consent (162.1 Cr.C.)
    • Sexual interference (151 Cr.C.)
    • Voyeurism (162 Cr.C.)
• Controlled drugs and substances
• Possession
• Extraordinary remedies (774 to 784 Cr.C.)
  • Habeas corpus
• Sentencing (716 to 751.1 Cr.C.)
  • Particular sanctions (730 to 746.1 Cr.C.)
    • Community service (732.1(3)(f) and 742.3(2)(d) Cr.C.)
    • Parole ineligibility (745 to 746.1 Cr.C.)
    • Prohibition orders
    • Restitution and compensation orders (737.1 to 741.2 Cr.C.)
    • Suspended sentence (731(1)(a) Cr.C.)
    • Victim fine surcharge (737 Cr.C.)
    • Imprisonment (743 to 746.1 Cr.C.)
      • Concurrent sentences
      • Consecutive sentences
      • Intermittent (732 Cr.C.)
  • Sentencing considerations
    • Domestic abuse (718.2(a)(ii) Cr.C.)

Family Law (Common Law)

• Maintenance and support > Child support
  • Calculation or attribution of income
    • Imputation of income
  • Considerations
    • Ability to pay
      • Dependent children
      • Incomes over $150,000
      • Where child has income
  • Quantum
    • Exceptions and exemptions from Guidelines
      • Undue hardship
    • Special or extraordinary (s. 7) expenses
  • Variation or termination of obligation
    • Material change in circumstances
• Marital or family property > Matrimonial or family home
  • Ownership
  • Possession and occupancy
    • Occupation rent

 

Family Law (Québec)

• Obligation alimentaire (585 à 596 C.c.Q.)
  • Arrérages
• Obligation alimentaire (585 à 596 C.c.Q.) > Au profit d'un enfant
  • Détermination du montant
    • Avantage tiré de l’emploi ou de l’entreprise
    • Calcul et attribution du revenu
      • Actifs
    • Diminution volontaire des revenus
    • Exception pour difficultés excessives (587.2 C.c.Q.)
      • Enfant issu d’une autre union
      • Frais de transport pour l’exercice des droits d’accès
      • Non-exercice des droits d’accès
    • Revenu d’entreprise
    • Revenu présumé
    • Revenu supérieur à 150 000 $
  • Enfant majeur
    • Poursuite des études
• Résidence familiale (401 à 413 C.c.Q.)
  • Copropriété indivise
  • Droit d’usage
  • Impenses, frais et charges communes

 

Tort Law (Common Law)

• Defences
  • Act of God
  • Disclaimer, waiver or exclusion of risk
  • Immunity
  • Self-defence
  • Statutory compliance
  • Voluntary assumption of risk (volenti non fit injuria)
• Vicarious liability
  • Independent contractor
  • Liability of employer for acts of employee
  • Parents or guardians, for acts of children

 

Health Law (Québec)

• Québec [Santé] > Santé publique > Aliments et produits de consommation
  • Tabac et produits de vapotage