We’ve been sitting on some really big IRP news for the last few months and we weren’t allowed to tell you about it. At this point we can give you some of the information, but you’ll need to come back to see the rest because right now we can only use this secret information to […]
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In a recent blog post we promised to offer our theory to explain why the Government keeps coming at us, and keeps coming up with new ways to challenge our successes. We’ve run unconventional arguments in BC Supreme Court and we’ve succeeded. And we challenge any bad decision this Government makes. There’s a very simple
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Regularly we represent clients who refused to blow because they don’t trust the breathalyzer. We get it. We don’t trust the breathalyzer either, generally speaking. But as a strategy to deal with the police in a DUI investigation, refusing to blow because you don’t trust the breathalyzer is a mistake. Here’s why. How many people
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The results of a request we made for RoadSafetyBC documents shows clearly that the Government doesn’t want you to know how they decide your IRP. You may remember that the Government amended the IRP scheme to allow the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles to rely on his own self-made evidence, called “technical materials” about a year
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It’s important to remember, if you’re charged with an offence or you’ve been issued an IRP, that the Government is your adversary. They’re not out to help you, they don’t want you to succeed and in fact, from their perspective your desire for justice is an impediment to their goals. The Government is your opponent.
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Crucial in any litigation is establishing facts. In criminal law a defence lawyer may simply need to call into question the facts that the prosecutor is attempting to prove. Not so in Immediate Roadside Prohibition cases. Establishing facts in an IRP case is much more complex and failure to do it right is often the
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Back in January, a challenge was made to some unsuccessful IRP decisions. What had happened — and some of our readers were in this situation — was that following the Wilson and Richardson decisions from the BC Supreme Court, the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles stopped rendering decisions. [T]he circumstantial evidence referred to by the petitioner
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The Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme has been a series of failures right from the start. One of the dumbest things that the BC Government did with the IRP scheme was to make everyone who was issued a 90-day driving prohibition get an interlock in their car for a year. It was shortsighted and they knew
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We were in BC Supreme Court the other day and the judge expressed exasperation at the errors made by the police. How could they screw this up so badly? We have the answer to that: police make mistakes, just like everyone else (perhaps with greater consequences?), and not every utterance made by a cop is
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We like most of the police officers we deal with in the course of our work. Despite a few notable exceptions, most police officers are thoughtful intelligent and balanced, and they contribute through their work to our community. To assume that the police don’t lie is mechanism to teach them to lie. If we accept
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It’s time as Canadians that we recognize a particular point in our history when we tossed aside the legal mantra that you are innocent until proven guilty. For generations we enjoyed the expansion of legal rights. We used to intrinsically understand that governments pose the biggest threat to our liberty and so we placed restrictions
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We’ve alluded several times on our blog to the fact that we take heat for what we do. We are outspoken, critical of government, and skeptical about much of the Government propaganda related to impaired driving. What we haven’t told you has been the extent to which we have had to defend our positions. This
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