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Andrew Barbacki | Criminal Lawyer | Montréal

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    Mr. Barbacki is a former Crown Prosecutor who holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Law degrees from McGill University. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1976 and began his career as a Crown Prosecutor in Montreal. After seven years experience prosecuting all types of criminal cases Mr. Barbacki moved on to a position in Ottawa as the Coordinator of the Criminal Law Review for the Solicitor General of Canada, where he stayed until 1986. He then returned to Montreal to lecture at the Faculty of Law at McGill University, teaching Criminal Procedure. Mr. Barbacki has been in private practice since 1986 as a criminal defense lawyer and has extensive trial experience. The hundreds of criminal trials he has been involved in include over 40 trials by judge and jury, many of which were murder cases. Mr. Barbacki also has extensive experience prosecuting and defending white collar criminal cases such as theft and fraud, as well as a large number of successful defences of drug trafficking and possession charges and impaired driving cases, where his science background is valuable in dealing with the technical aspects of breathalyzer issues. He also has extensive experience in family violence and sexual offences.

Criminal Expertise

When the Charter Of Rights came into force the Criminal Law was overhauled in order to conform to the rules and principles of the Charter. In his position as Coordinator of the Criminal Law Review for the Federal Ministry of the Solicitor General Mr Barbacki, criminal lawyer, was involved in the development of the modern criminal law in areas such as

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Andrew Barbacki can be contacted day or night 24hrs a day in a any emergency, you can be confident that you will work personally and directly with him on every aspect of your case. His clients can always reach him by phone, e-mail or text message and count on a prompt response.

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Le chauffeur de taxi accusé d’avoir utilisé son véhicule comme arme est relaché sous caution

Les avocats criminels de la cour de Montréal exprimaient récemment des opinions divergentes à propos de l’épilogue probable du cas de Guercy Edmond, ce chauffeur de taxi qui a écrasé un passager ivre et agressif qui l’attaquait avec l’aide de deux autres passagers. Il semblerait qu’après avoir insulté et frappé le

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Cab Driver Charged With Using Car As Weapon Granted Bail

Criminal lawyers at the Montreal courthouse were expressing mixed opinions recently about the likely outcome of the case of Guercy Edmond, the cab driver who ran over an intoxicated and truculent passenger while or shortly after being attacked by the victim and his two fellow passengers. Apparently, after the driver was verbally

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George Zimmerman et Trayvon Martin: Il n’y a qu’en Amérique…

Le cas de ce jeune home sans arme abattu par un “pseudo-vigile” a fait l’objet d’énormément de publicité en raison des allégations de racisme provoquées par l’absence d’accusations portées contre ce policier manqué. Depuis l’arrestation pour meurtre de M. Zimmerman, les média sont saturés d’opinions d’experts

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George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin: Only In America

The case of the wannabe cop who shot an unarmed teenager in Florida initially generated enormous publicity due to the allegation of racism as the basis for criminal charges not having been laid against Mr. Zimmerman. Now that he has been arrested for murder the media are awash with expert opinions from criminal lawyers on the likely

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La Guerre Contre Les Drogues En Boxe Et UFC

Des articles précédents ont souligné la futilité d’utiliser le droit criminel pour réprimer l’usage des drogues récréationnelles. Dernièrement nous avons eu l’occasion de constater qu’il est possible de contrôler efficacement l’usage des drogues dans le monde du sport professionnel sans avoir recours aux poursuites

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The War on Drugs in Boxing and UFC

Previous posts have underscored the futility of using the criminal law to control the use of recreational drugs and recently we have seen how drug use in the world of professional sports can be dealt with effectively without recourse to criminal proceedings. Ironically, it seems the most primitive sports, boxing and mixed martial arts,

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Reportage du procès criminel des meurtriers de Tori Stafford: encourager notre curiosité morbide

Il est triste de constater que les média nationaux consacrent une fois de plus leurs ressources à la diffusion de l’histoire horrible d’un cas répugnant de meurtre sexuel. On est en lieu de se demander quelle faiblesse de l’esprit humain peut pousser une foule de lecteurs à suivre heure par heure la mise à jour de chaque

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Reporting The Tori Stafford Murder Trial: Catering To Our Morbid Curiosity

It is sad to see the national media once again devoting their resources to publicizing the gruesome story of a disgusting case of sex murder. One wonders what weakness in the human psyche creates a mass readership for hourly updated coverage of every lurid detail of the sordid case of a young girl abducted on the first day she was to

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Les Policiers et Leurs Sources Anonymes

La nouvelle qu’un policier retraité avait été arrêté suite aux allégations d’avoir offert de dévoiler les identités des informateurs anonymes a secoué forces policières ainsi que le milieu du crime organisé. Étant donné l’importance pour les enquêtes criminelles des renseignements provenant des membres du milieu

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Police and Their Informers

News of the arrest of a retired Montreal police officer for offering information identifying confidential informers to organized crime figures caused quite a stir in the law enforcement community as well as in the Montreal criminal underworld. This is understandable given the importance of inside information to the success of

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