Privacy in Peril

Hunter V Southam and the Drift from Reasonable Search Protections

AvRichard Jochelson,David Ireland

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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In 1984, the Supreme Court of Canada, in Hunter v Southam, declared warrantless searches unreasonable under section 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Police would henceforth require authorization based on "reasonable and probable grounds." The decision promised to protect individuals from state power, but as Richard Jochelson and David Ireland argue, post-Hunter search and seizure law took a turn away from the landmark decision. An examination of dozens of subsequent cases reveals that section 8 protections have become more difficult to obtain in the post-9/11 era. Rather than developing rigorous standards for new search and surveillance techniques and technologies, the courts have used the Charter to sanction broader police powers. Yet, even as it demonstrates that the core principles of Justice Dickson's vision for section 8 rights have been diminished, Privacy in Peril suggests that increasing citation of Hunter in the halls of justice offers hope that some protection of civil liberties will endure in the twenty-first century.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-11-01
Mått:140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Landmark Cases in Canadian Law
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774862585

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Richard Jochelson teaches in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba and is the author of several books on police powers and sexual regulation. After articling at the Alberta Court of Appeal and Court of Queen's Bench, he worked at one of Canada's largest law firms. David Ireland teaches criminal law and evidence at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba and is the director of the Robson Hall Innocence Clinic. He was called to the Manitoba bar in 2011 and has practised criminal law as both defence counsel and a prosecutor.

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…it provides a thoughtful, critical counterpoint to those more practical texts. Academic and judicial libraries as well as prosecution departments and criminal law firms will find it to be a useful addition to their collections.- Melanie Bueckert, Legal Research Counsel, Manitoba Court of Appeal (Canadian Law Library Review)

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Introduction1 Dickson's Decision: The Supreme Court as Guardian of the Constitution2 The Threshold Test: A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy3 Lowering the Bar: The Supreme Court's Failure to Maintain the Hunter Standard4 Expanding Search Powers: Search Incident to Arrest and Exigent CircumstancesConclusionAppendix: A Note on the EvidenceNotes; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index