As the summer wraps up and your children return from camp, this is a good time to let you know that next summer, when your child is 18, you won’t have to pay to send them anywhere. This is because the Harper Government is going to send your kids to jail. Here’s how it works: […]
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We have been contacted by a few people recently who told us that they have been deceived by the Government and consequently they lost their Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) review hearing. They’re angry and they want to do something about it. And we’re sympathetic. What these people are telling us is that they received a
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Quite often using Alco-Sensor IV DWF Screeners in our office we obtained false positives for alcohol. What happens is that a drinking subject blows, and quickly thereafter a non-drinking subject is tested and the unit provides a reading indicating some amount of alcohol. In other words, the unit is either malfunctioning or it has retained
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We’ve been holding back on an IRP update for a few weeks because it’s important to protect the position of our clients. Many people follow our blog, including people who lament and oppose our efforts to expose the system. So we try to balance the need to keep our cards close and keep people informed.
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As criminal lawyers we have seen many cases where people have been treated terribly by the police. We’ve come to see this as standard police procedure, although any police force would understandable deny this. However, from time to time it gets on the news, usually when there’s someone who manages to catch the police in
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Although we spend a lot of time defending IRPs and driving prohibitions, we are in fact trial lawyers. Much of our work takes place in court. As criminal lawyers we often negotiate plea agreements to get the best result for our clients. When a plea bargain is not in the best interests of our client
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We’re getting a reputation in British Columbia, but it isn’t for our mountains, our pipeline flip-flopping premier or our deflating real estate bubble. It turns out that we are now being viewed as The Land That Justice Forgot. The Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme (IRP or ARP scheme – whatever you want to call it) is
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When the new version of the IRP scheme came out mid June, one of the first undisclosed changes the Government also brought in was a document to hide ASD malfunctions. For over a year we identified never-ending ASD problems. To counter the evidence we disclosed, they came up with a document to hide the problems
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One question we are often asked is why we defend drunk driving cases. As lawyers we take on all sorts of different cases, from serious drug charges to personal injury cases, the occasional contract dispute and discipline proceedings when a professional is facing sanctions from a regulatory body. But more than anything we defend driving
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When Sivia was argued the Government did not put forward evidence of a drunk driving expert, i.e. a forensic toxicologist. We weren’t surprised. There are dozens of experts in the effects of alcohol, the chemistry of alcohol and the equipment used to measure alcohol concentration who work in labs for the RCMP across Canada. Many
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If you received an Immediate Roadside Prohibition for Fail and you’re wondering how it could happen bearing in mind how little you had to drink, the answer may be that you had some alcohol in your mouth. One of the main problems with Fail IRPs is that none of the roadside breathalyzers can differentiate alcohol
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If you just received an Immediate Roadside Prohibition for blowing Fail or Warn, you may remember hearing a snap or click sound when you blew into the ASD. The sound indicates that the sample has been captured and, if the ASD is functioning properly, the analysis of the sample will then begin. The Alco-Sensor IV
