Canadian Judicial Council - National Judicial Institute
Model Jury Instructions
Glossary
NOA = Name of Accused
NOA2 = Name of Accused 2
NOC = Name of Complainant
NOC2 = Name of Complainant 2
NOD = Name of Declarant
NOW = Name of Witness
NOW2 = Name of Witness 2
NOAW = Name of Accused-Witness (Accused who testifies)
NO3P = Name of Third Party
NOAV = Name of Actual Victim
NOIV = Name of Intended Victim
11.29 Judicial Notice
Note1
(Last revised June 2012)
[1]
Although no one gave evidence about (specify what is judicially noticed), you must treat it as a
fact.
1
It would only be in rare situations that this instruction would be appropriate. A jury should not be instructed to
take judicial notice of a fact unless the judge has first given counsel an opportunity, in the absence of the jury, to
make submissions about whether judicial notice is appropriate. Judicial notice is the acceptance of a fact without
formal proof. It applies to:
(i) facts that are so notorious that they are not the subject of dispute among reasonable persons; and,
(ii) facts that are capable of immediate and accurate demonstration by resorting to readily accessible sources of
indisputable accuracy.
See R. v. Williams, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 1128; R. v. Spence, [2005] 3 S.C.R. 458.