From banking to emails, messages, and online shopping, we use our smartphones now more than ever before. As a result, few things contain as much personal information. This causes the…
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In May 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada decided an important case on police powers and personal property rights. This ruling stems from R v Le, a case about five…
Canadian jury selection system The Federal Government recently changed the Canadian jury selection system. Through Bill C-75, the government removed peremptory challenges from the jury selection process. This new law…
Access to Information A recent 2019 decision from Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench, Edmonton Police Service (EPS) v Alberta, considered the information available in police record checks. At issue was…
Police Street Checks On July 30th, Ontario announced a new initiative: public consultation on police street checks. Street checks are police instigated stops in high-crime neighbourhoods, and the reason the…
Charter Rights There has been recent disagreement about what it means to breach an individual’s s. 10(a) Charter right to be informed promptly of the reason for their arrest or…
Two recent decisions have called into question the use of police discretion in holding an accused for a show cause hearing. In R v Sabatini, 2015 ONCJ 282, the Ontario…