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In summary, s. 2(d), viewed purposively, protects three classes of activities: (1) the right to join with others and form associations; (2) the right to join with others in the pursuit of other constitutional rights; and (3) the right to join with others to meet on more equal terms the power and strength of other groups or entities. [6]
Ontario police sergeant Jeff Quon, along with other officers and those they were exchanging messages with, had sued the city, their superiors and the pager service provider in federal court. They had alleged a violation of not only their constitutional rights but federal telecommunications privacy laws.
In R v Grant (1990), it was found that random stops by police, authorized by statute, were in violation of section 9 but were justified as a reasonable limitation under section 1 of the Charter. Likewise, in R. v. Ladouceur (1990) highway stops were found to be arbitrary where absolute discretion was given to the police. Again, the violation ...
R. v. Hebert, [1990] 2 SCR 151 confirms that this right extends to situations where the police employ "unfair tricks" such as sending an undercover police officer to pose as a sympathetic cellmate. Another right against self-incrimination can be found in section 13 of the Charter.
The Office of the Independent Police Review Director's specific mandate is receiving, managing and overseeing all public complaints about municipal, regional and provincial police in Ontario; as such, First Nations police, special constables and provincial offences officers (bylaw enforcement), and federal agencies such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are not subject to review by ...
Police Officers in Ontario will now have the right to stop and have the public identify themselves or face hefty fines for violating their orders, according to a new power granted by the province ...
A New Jersey police officer's entry into a Sussex County woman's garage to detain her after suspecting she was drunk driving was a violation of her constitutional rights, an appeals court decided ...
The focus of analysis is upon the purpose of the examination. A police officer who compels someone to produce their licence would not be invasive enough to constitute a search (R. v. Ladouceur, [1990] [9]). Equally, an inspection of the inside of a car is not a search, but questions about the contents of a bag would be. (R. v.