Section Thirteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Canadian Charter
of Rights and Freedoms
| style="text-align: center;" | Preamble
| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Guarantee of Rights and Freedoms
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Fundamental Freedoms
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Democratic Rights
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Equality Rights
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | General
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Application of Charter
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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;" | Citation
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Section Thirteen of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a section of the
Charter which, along with
section 11 (c), specifies rights regarding
self-incrimination.
It reads:
- 13. A witness who testifies in any proceedings has the right not to have any incriminating evidence so given used to incriminate that witness in any other proceedings, except in a prosectution for perjury or for the giving of contradictory evidence.
Rights against self-incrimination had existed in
Canadian law even before the Charter, but these applied to cases in which an individual might incriminate him or herself while giving
testimony in another person's
trial. Since the enactment of the Charter, the right has been extended in case law in regard to
retrials, to exclude from one's retrial self-incriminating evidence if it had been obtained during cross examination in the last trial.
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