Criminal Law in Ontario aims to be accurate, but a site covering this much legal ground will occasionally contain an error, an outdated statement, or a passage that is unclear. This page explains how to report a suspected problem and how those reports are generally handled.
How to Report a Suspected Error
If something on this site looks wrong, outdated, or confusing, the fastest way to flag it is through the contact page. Including the page URL, the specific statement in question, and, where possible, why it looks incorrect makes it much easier to review the issue quickly. General feedback about the site's clarity or organization is also welcome through the same form.
What Happens After a Report
Reports of suspected errors are reviewed against the underlying source material, such as the relevant Criminal Code provision, case law, or official guidance, to confirm whether a correction is needed. Where an error is confirmed, the affected page is updated and its "Updated" date is refreshed to reflect the revision. Not every report will result in a change; sometimes a passage that looks incorrect at first turns out to be accurate once the underlying source is checked, and in that case a reply may simply clarify the reasoning behind the wording.
Examples of What This Process Covers
This process is meant for concrete issues with the content itself: a statement that misdescribes a Criminal Code provision, a broken or outdated link, a page that has not kept up with a known legislative amendment, or a factual mistake such as an incorrect date or an outdated procedural detail. It is not intended for disagreements about how a general legal principle is phrased, where there may be more than one reasonable way to describe it in plain language, though feedback of that kind is still welcome and considered.
Our Commitment
This site is committed to reviewing reported issues and correcting genuine inaccuracies as promptly as reasonably possible. Because the team behind this site is small, response times can vary, but every report submitted through the contact page is read and considered.
How Quickly Reports Are Reviewed
There is no fixed turnaround time for reviewing a reported issue, since some corrections require only a quick check against a source, while others involve reviewing case law or recent legislative changes before a page can be safely revised. Reports involving a clear factual error, such as an incorrect date or a broken link, are generally addressed more quickly than reports raising a more nuanced interpretive question.
This Is Not a Channel for Urgent Legal Help
The corrections process described here is for feedback about the content of this website. It is not a way to get urgent legal help or advice about an active criminal matter. Anyone who needs help with an actual charge should see the urgent legal help resources on the homepage or the legal assistance page.
Even outside a formal correction, general feedback about anything that was unclear or hard to follow is genuinely useful and helps improve future revisions of a page.