This is the day you’ve waited for. It’s official – there is now a procedure to dispute the interlock requirement for 90-day IRP and ADP driving prohibitions. Over the years we fielded so many calls from people asking whether they can have the interlock requirement lifted. The Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles said […]
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The provincial government has offered $2,000 refunds to hundreds of motorists who received immediate roadside suspensions for drinking and driving. A lawyer for some says the letter is an acknowledgment Victoria should not have additionally penalized all suspended drivers by forcing them to install an ignition breathalyzer lock on their vehicles and attend a responsible
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The government announced that they are giving up. They will no longer force everyone to go through the IIP and RDP if they receive a 90-day IRP. They will review old cases with a new review process. They won’t force people to pay all of that money if it’s not justified. We win. We’re gleeful.
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The new Superintendent of Motor Vehicles is now writing letters telling people how much money they can get back for being wrongly referred to the IIP (Interlock) and RDP. So far this applies to the people in the 1137. Did you win the IRP lottery? If you already received one of these letters, you might
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Because of our challenge regarding the interlock requirement of 90-day Immediate Roadside Prohibitions, many drivers who receive IRPs are no longer being required to have an interlock installed in their vehicle. As of a date that has not been publicly acknowledged, the OSMV stopped automatically forcing everyone through the IIP and RDP. Now, when you
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Although the BC Government has claimed from the start that the Ignition Interlock Program (IIP) and the Responsible Driver Program (RDP) are mandatory for everyone who gets a 90-day IRP, the Motor Vehicle Act merely compels the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles to review the driving record to determine if either or both of these programs
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There is a much more updated post on this topic dealing with the reconsideration for referral to the responsible driver program and the success we’ve had in this regard. Please see: We can have the responsible driver program requirement lifted The big news is that we have now had success in lifting the interlock and
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This is big news if you follow the twists and turns of the IRP story. Steve Martin has quit his job as the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles. With only weeks to go before the provincial election, Mr. Martin quit last Tuesday and accepted another position in the Government. We only confirmed this for ourselves a
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As we’ve noted before, the police are always the first to advocate for a police state. And as we’ve noted before, the IRP scheme is a long step down that slippery slope toward a society governed by the police rather than governed by law. Emboldened by their power to issue IRPs (on crappy evidence) and
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When the Government finally agreed not to compel the 1137 people who were the subject of our court challenge to complete the Responsible Driver Program and get an Interlock, they also said that they would reimburse those people for the money they’d paid toward those programs. We’re now bringing a court challenge to ensure nobody else
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If you’ve followed the news and our blog, you know that our challenge to the ignition interlock and RDP requirements led to 1137 people being freed so far. The remedial requirements are discretionary according to the Motor Vehicle Act, the decisions of the ICBC OSMV tribunal and the deputy Superintendent. But the Office of the
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Toward the end of last week, while we were busy trying to lift the interlock requirement for as many people as possible, the Vancouver Sun published an article with particularly interesting IRP news. Ian Mulgrew managed to interview the former B.C. Solicitor General John van Dongen, and elicit his opinions on the IRP scheme. He
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