We keep our finger on the pulse of the legislative action in Victoria when it comes to the proposed changes to the Motor Vehicle Act. Mind you, “action” probably isn’t the appropriate term because it suggests a level of intensity that just isn’t there. And “pulse” would suggest that there is one; as though democracy […]
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We expect that the proposed changes to the BC Motor Vehicle Act will be enacted into law within weeks. Most of the time proposed legislation is BC becomes law with little debate in our legislature. Usually the final version of the law is identical to the one introduced at first reading. Legislation that amends laws
Imagine for a second that a government started with a blank sheet of paper and wanted to design a law to deal with the difficult problem of impaired driving. They could start by writing a law that goes something like this: 1.) Everyone who is impaired by alcohol in their ability to drive and drives
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Money is always an issue. If you are issued an IRP, you need to sit down and do some calculations right away to figure out what it’s going to cost you. 90 days without your driver’s license might cost you your job. If it won’t, you still need to calculate what it will cost to
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The Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme was designed so there would be no defences to an IRP. That should come as no surprise. The Government didn’t write the law with fairness as a priority. It came infused with blind faith in the police. And even with several dozen court decisions making clear that they need to
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We just received the decision of the Court in the IRP 2.0 challenge. Thumbs down. 🙁 We’ll update everyone here when we get a chance to go through the decision.
IRP 2.0 – Court upholds the legislation Continue Reading »
As we explained earlier, we were involved in the challenge to the second version of the Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme. The hearing took place just over a week ago in BC Supreme Court sitting in Victoria. IRP 2.0 is now in the hands of the Court. Of course, the first version of the scheme was
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Few people are aware that there was a challenge to the IRP scheme version 2. We didn’t talk about it here on our blog because we thought it would be inappropriate to publicly discuss it before the hearing took place. However, the hearing is now over and so we’re now happy to report what’s been
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We got the sense that the Government hates lawyers. We came to this conclusion because of the crappy legal aid funding situation, legislation the Government introduced that prohibits people from being represented by a lawyer in some circumstances and utterances on BC Government websites designed to discourage people from hiring a lawyer to defend their
Lawyers and the IRP scheme Continue Reading »
We’ve said all along that the IRP law is bad law — you can read several hundred of our blog posts to see our opinion on it. What always surprises us is that it was so poorly thought out by the people who wrote the law and promoted it. They did no scientific testing to
The IRP law is bad law Continue Reading »
It’s the anniversary of a dark day in the history of BC. June 15 marks the second year that the second version of the IRP scheme has been in effect. The Government would like you to think its a fait accompli at this point — that the IRP scheme isn’t going away, that they pulled
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It’s awful being a New Driver in BC. If you’ve got an “N” and you’re accused of driving after drinking, you’ve got a big problem. In BC the graduated license program is akin to having an axe above your head with a hair release. If you’re a Novice / New Driver, i.e. you have an
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