Narcotics Charges

Narcotics charges – also known as drug offences – include a wide variety of offences surrounding drugs such as cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

Greg DelBigio represents clients charged with offences including:

Possession;
Possession for the purposes of trafficking;
Trafficking;
Production of marijuana (grow operations) ;
Importing or exporting across national borders, and;
Conspiracy

Narcotics-related investigations also frequently involve other charges including proceeds of crime seizures and frequently give rise to Charter of Rights issues involving search and seizure, search warrant challenges and other matters.

Greg Delbigio has extensive experience in these areas.

Greg was a course instructor at the 1998 Continuing Legal Education program dealing with the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the 2001 program on Search and Seizure and, more recently, the 2006 program on Controlled Drugs.

Recent News

19 Nov 2012

In July 2012, Mr. DelBigio joined leading tax firm Thorsteinssons LLP as Counsel in that firm’s tax litigation group. Mr. DelBigio will be offering clients his significant expertise in cases involving tax evasion, search and seizure and constitutional defences. Mr. DelBigio will continue to service ongoing clients and offer criminal defence services for other criminal.

17 Jun 2010

As recently reported by the Canadian Bar Association, the Air India Inquiry final report, released on June 17, made a number of recommendations that were consistent with proposals made by the CBA in its intervention at the Inquiry. The report singled out the CBA’s submissions on the relationship between intelligence and evidence and the challenges.

2 May 2010

“Court can order lawyers to work for free,”* April 9, 2010, Lawyers Weekly. View the article. In this case a criminal defence lawyer (Cunningham) was employed by Yukon Legal Aid to represent an accused charged with sexual offences against a young child. The accused failed to update his financial information as required by Legal Aid.