The BC Supreme Court decision in Kenyon v. the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles has people in the BC Government all upset. In that particularly insightful decision, the BC Supreme Court Justice says a lot of smart things including that, in his opinion, the adjudicators at the OSMV are “attempting to rationalize desired results.” He notes […]
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We are often stunned by the disclosure we obtain from Freedom of Information requests. We find horrible things like police concocting evidence to substantiate IRPs, Government employees doing things absolutely contrary to the law and almost every day we see evidence of incompetency across the board. Lawyers like ourselves who are in court practically every
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When it comes to Immediate Roadside Driving Prohibitions it can be impossible to prove you’re innocent. Although the case law says that the burden of proving the allegation is the job of the police, the Government continues to contest this, claiming it’s an undecided legal issue every time they get to court. And in actual
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Some old Hollywood films popularized the phrase that the Mounties always get their man. It’s a useful fiction for the RCMP because it suggests that if you commit a crime they’re gonna find you, so don’t bother committing a crime. In other words, it serves as general deterrence – deterring people from committing crimes. But
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Ah, September. The time of year when children head back to school. In the Lower Mainland of BC in particular this is a special time of year as students head back to university. And many new university students move into the Lower Mainland from around the world. It’s a special time of year. You can
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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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On December 17, 2012, the Honorable Mr. Wally Oppal released the long-awaited report in the Missing Women’s Inquiry. This Report came after months of testimony from police officers, Crown-Counsel prosecutors, sex trade workers and the families of missing and murdered women. Just shy of 1,500 pages, in six separate volumes, the Report into the Missing
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The news of the shooting in Connecticut should at the very least provide perspective for all of us when we think of our family, friends and the people we care for. In the last few days most of us have turned our minds to just how much we care about the people around us. It
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We regularly see standard police interrogation procedure that in our opinion would shock the good thinking people of Canada if they only knew about it. An Alberta court decision which provides a good example of standard police interrogation procedure has just made the news and it’s worth a read. See: R. v. Chapple, 2012 ABPC 229
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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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Yes, we noticed it and one of our readers did too. If you look at the image of the invoice from our blog posting on June 7, 2012, you will see a unit described as having a serial number 1014890. The serial number listed is an error — the actual unit was 101489 or 101490
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As you have probably figured out reading our blog, we have sources of inside information in the Government and some police forces in BC. It’s not nefarious. Often the information we get merely confirms what we already know. Many people on the inside find the IRP scheme deeply flawed and as a consequence they tell
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