Quick Answer
Point Duty defends uttering threats charges under Criminal Code s.264.1 — conveying a threat of death or bodily harm, spoken, written, or sent online, whether or not you meant to carry it out. Summary conviction carries up to two years less a day, a criminal record, and no-contact and weapons conditions. A licensed paralegal can act.
Knowingly uttering, conveying, or causing any person to receive a threat to cause death, bodily harm, or damage to property. Hybrid offence; on summary election within paralegal scope.
Section 264.1 of the Criminal Code prohibits knowingly uttering or conveying a threat to cause death or bodily harm, to burn, destroy or damage property, or to kill, poison or injure an animal. The threat must be communicated but does not require an intent to actually carry it out.
Hybrid. On summary: up to 2 years less a day. On indictment: up to 5 years. Criminal record on conviction. Common conditions include no-contact orders and weapons prohibitions.
Uttering threats appears on the Law Society’s permitted list at s.264.1(3). It is hybrid, so a paralegal may act once the Crown elects to proceed by summary conviction, and the matter passes to a lawyer if it elects indictment instead. Where the paralegal scope line falls, and why.
Disclosure review of the alleged words and the context in which they were spoken. Many files resolve through peace bond, diversion, or withdrawal where the evidence is contested.
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