Criminal Defence Law Blog
There is no privacy. “”We give our police officers special powers in our society that we believe they need to keep us safe. But there is a trust relationship that has to be there, it’s the foundation of those powers.” Other local police services also use this technology. Give them power and they will abuse it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/clearview-ai-toronto-police-ccla-privacy-1.5463823
Sort of, but they may have replaced it with something worse.
An evidence code is needed because, in R. v. Graat [1982] 2 S.C.R. 819, Justice Brian Dickson, delivering the judgment of the Supreme Court, stated: “We start with the reality that the law of evidence is burdened with a large number of cumbersome rules, with exclusions, and exceptions to the exclusions, and exceptions to the exceptions.” And now, that fragmentation of the law of evidence is much worse.
Source: An evidence code to replace the many evidence acts | Ken Chasse – The Lawyer’s Daily
Source: NewmarketToday.ca
A Vancouver lawyer reveals how the court dealt with charter issues and the expansion of digital technology.
Source: Sarah Leamon: Reviewing the most important Supreme Court of Canada
Justice Patrice Band, during a recent child pornography case, wrote of the “the trauma that justice system participants can suffer” when exposed to graphic evidence.
Source: Toronto judge wants courts to rethink how graphic evidence is presented | The Star