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Privacy in Peril

Privacy in Peril

Hunter v Southam and the Drift from Reasonable Search Protections

by Richard Jochelson and David Ireland

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Landmark Cases in Canadian Law

Imprint: UBC Press

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9780774862608
Published: November 2019

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9780774862592
Published: November 2019

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This book is an invaluable resource for anyone thinking about search and seizure, whether they are students or legal scholars; members of policing organizations, security forces, or civil liberties groups; or individuals concerned about the overreach of state power.

Introduction

1 Dickson’s Decision: The Supreme Court as Guardian of the Constitution

2 The Threshold Test: A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy

3 Lowering the Bar: The Supreme Court’s Failure to Maintain the Hunter Standard

4 Expanding Search Powers: Search Incident to Arrest and Exigent Circumstances

Conclusion

Appendix: A Note on the Evidence

Notes; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index

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.

…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