Cellphones now facilitate nearly all forms of business and personal activity. And there is no question that cellphones are used to facilitate criminal activity. It has been noted that cellphones are the "bread and butter" of the drug trade and the means by which...
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Despite police mistakes when seizing a computer to search constituting Charter breaches, the evidence was still deemed admissible
by Jon Doody | Sep 24, 2018 | Child Porn And Luring
One of the methods by which police are made aware of the presence of child pornography on a computer is when a computer technician is hired to fix the computer and in the process of doing so discovers the illegal content. A recent decision of the Court of Appeal of...
When Do Police Need to Show a Search Warrant?
by Jon Doody | Jul 30, 2018 | Drug Offences
A recent Ontario Superior Court decision, R v Boekdrukker, addressed this issue. The Court examined both what is required in the Criminal Code as well as what is required under the common law. Section 29(1) of the Criminal Code states that: "It is the duty of every...
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