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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