However, the provincial statutes also give courts residual discretion to refuse to stay the proceedings in certain circumstances. (labourandemploymentlaw.com)
Where threshold reliability is satisfied the trial judge remains with residual discretion to exclude statements if there are voluntariness concerns «or other improper factors that would tend to bring the administration of justice into disrepute» (at para. 37). (supremeadvocacy.ca)
Abuse of process is a flexible doctrine that finds its roots in the Court's inherent residual discretion to prevent an abuse of its process. (disinherited.com)