VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A Vancouver lawyer is very busy, getting banned drivers their licences back. The cases are piling up since the BC Supreme Court ruled against the province’s tough new drunk driving laws last week. Paul Doroshenko says he represents at least 100 people who’ve been hit with a 90-day driving prohibition but are […]
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December 8, 2011 The decision to overturn part of B.C.’s drunk-driving laws has sparked several legal challenges.
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It was a pop of a cork heard across two provinces, but for Alberta, the champagne fell totally flat. Those expecting salvation in a B.C. Supreme Court ruling, hoping a legal challenge against rigid drunk driving rules would stop similar legislation next door, have little to toast. There’s nothing to celebrate, because the B.C. court
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Global National – Parts of B.C. drunk driving law ruled unconstitutional Wed, Nov 30: Canada’s toughest drunk driving law is dealt a blow, when a B.C. Supreme Court judge rules parts of it as unconstitutional. With files from the CBC’s Stephen Smart and Jeff Davies – Parts of B.C. drunk driving law ruled unconstitutional – CBC
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Forty-five fewer coffins. If anything is going to kill off opposition to strict new anti drunk-driving legislation in Alberta, it’s 45 fewer customers for the funeral industry in the province next door. That’s the number of lives apparently saved since B.C. adopted laws which Alberta plans to mirror next year, giving police the ability to
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B.C.’s anti-drunk driving legislation is a farce that pads provincial coffers while letting impaired motorists escape criminal prosecution, a veteran Vancouver lawyer says. And Vancouver Criminal Lawyer Paul Doroshenko told the Sun Albertans may be in for the same laws, which he said circumvent federal jurisdiction while being a cash cow for the B.C. provincial
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Anyone who has received a driving suspension in Port Moody in the last year after failing a roadside breath test may not have been over the legal limit, according to a lawyer who handles drunk driving cases. Paul Doroshenko told The Tri-City News the Port Moody Police Department has been improperly calibrating its screening devices,
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The Port Moody Police Department has asked that an outside agency review the way it calibrates screening devices used in roadside drinking tests after a defence lawyer suggested that flaws in the process could have resulted in inaccurate results – and unwarranted penalties for drunk driving. “The allegations made are serious and we are treating
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Kristen Debra-Lee Spencer remains angry in spite of her stunning B.C. Supreme Court victory over the province’s draconian anti-drunk driving regime. Since receiving a 90-day immediate roadside suspension last Oct. 31, Spencer has been outraged at how she was manhandled by police and forced to endure an expensive, painful ordeal that continues. “It was the
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Mario Knezevic’s family arrived from Europe to help him celebrate his bravery medals for rescuing and resuscitating a drowned two-year-old. He didn’t expect he would also have to introduce them to B.C.’s new arbitrary, anti-drunk-driving program and its severe, some might even say draconian, punishments. More importantly, perhaps, he was surprised it left him with
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The roadside testing devices that now are judge and jury are not always accurate Mario Knezevic’s family arrived from Europe to help him celebrate his bravery medals for rescuing and resuscitating a drowned two-year-old. He didn’t expect he would also have to introduce them to B.C.’s new arbitrary, anti-drunk-driving program and its severe, some might
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Many B.C. drivers who have had their licences suspended for impaired driving are being penalized beyond the intention of the law due to a bureaucratic backlog, CBC News has learned. More than 5,000 B.C. drivers have been caught with blood alcohol levels above 0.08 since September, when the province implemented tougher new impaired driving laws. The
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