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Spelling

The title of this page is spelled wrong. It should be 'offense' not 'offence'. JShust (talk) 14:32, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This raises an interesting point, as to how international words should be handled (i.e., centre vs. center, for instance). In this case, it's my understanding that 'offence' is the correct spelling through much of the world outside the United States. 'Offense' is the correct American spelling. Witzlaw (talk) 22:10, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Canada

It is correct that an arrest warrant is needed for neither summary nor indictable offenses?--Zfish118 (talk) 01:28, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is kind of a subject for another article, but the powers of arrest for police in Canada can be found in section 495 of the Criminal Code, if I recall the number. It says that a police officer doesn't need a warrant for many forms of arrests. In fact, arrests with a warrant are far less common than arrests without a warrant. A warrant isn't needed if the police officer finds a person in the act of committing the crime, whether it is summary or indictable. Also, a warrant isn't necessary if the police officer has "reasonable grounds to believe" that an indictable offence has been committed. And finally, a warrant is not necessary if the police officer has reason to believe there is a warrant out in effect, but he/she doesn't have it with him/her.

-- Michael Tillmann mtillmann79@gmail.com 29 March 2011 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.247.253.44 (talk) 04:49, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

History of summary offences

The article makes it clear that, in England and Wales at least, summary trials are not part of the common law but are an invention of statute law. This begs the question: when was the procedure first used, and when was the class of summary offences created by abolishing the right to jury trial in respect of them? Hairy Dude (talk) 22:50, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge of Criminal citation into Summary offence#United States

This article is a stub, and the concepts are substantially similar so that they may not warrant separate pages. Rockstone^{Send me a message!} 12:43, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]