NCA updates Contracts and Foundations of Canadian Law Syllabus - 2022

Important Notice - The NCA just updated the Contracts and Foundations of Canadian Law Syllabus. The Foundations of Canadian Law update only removes the "Robin Maynard, “Arrested (In)justice: From the streets to the prison” in Policing Black Lives" article.

You can find the Contracts (2022) and Foundations of Canadian Law (2022) syllabus on the NCA Website or you can download the 2022 version of the Foundations of Canadian Law notes here.

NCA Exam results have been released!

Results from the August 2022 exam session are now available for the following exams:

  • Business Organizations
  • Canadian Criminal Law
  • Canadian Professional Responsibility
  • Remedies
  • Taxation

Make sure you head straight to the NCA portal to find out how you did. Please find the link to the portal here: https://ncaportal.flsc.ca/CandidatePortal/Login.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Please remember to email us if you worked with one of our lawyers on these exams. We’re anxiously awaiting your results.

Congratulations to everyone who passed the exam!

NCA Exam results have been released!

Foundations of Canadian Law and Constitutional Law results have been released!

Congratuations to everyone that has passed their exam. Please remember to e-mail us your results. We are anxiously awaiting all of your replies.

For all of you who are now done with the NCA process, please do keep in touch and let us know which area of law you end up practicing in.

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The Supreme Court restores an Alberta man’s acquittal for attacking a woman while in a state of automatism.

Matthew Brown drank wine and took "magic mushrooms" at a party in Calgary, Alberta on January 12, 2018. Psilocybin, an illegal drug that can produce hallucinations, which is found in mushrooms. Mr. Brown lost his sense of reality, fled the party, and physically assaulted a woman inside a nearby residence. As a result of the incident, the woman has lasting injuries. When Brown broke into another house, the residents alerted the authorities. Brown claimed he had no recollection of the events.

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The Supreme Court confirms a man’s acquittals and the Court of Appeal’s order for a new trial for another man in cases involving automatism.

David Sullivan and Thomas Chan, both from Ontario, committed violent crimes while heavily drunk from substances they had taken voluntarily. Although the two incidents are unrelated, both men claim that the pills put them in a state of "automatism", where someone claims to have lost entire control of himself due to intoxication or impairment.

Mr. Sullivan became inebriated after taking an overdose of prescription medicine and stabbed his mother with a knife, seriously wounding her. He was accused with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, and several other offences.

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