Sentences with phrase «charter rights officer»

For all government bills, the Charter Rights Officer should issue an independent assessment of Charter compliance, ideally prior to Second Reading in the House or Senate (depending on where a given bill is introduced).

Not exact matches

And so it is left to Don Walker, the company's chief executive officer and a 24 - year company veteran, as well as other managers, to sustain the unique Magna corporate culture that includes profit sharing and stock ownership for employees, an employee charter of rights and generally small factories that are individual profit centres and encourage managers to be entrepreneurial.

Unionized charter teachers would have the right to help elect CTU officers and win seats on the larger union's influential executive board and its larger House of Delegates.

The court found that that the fisheries officers transitioned their inspection to an investigation and failed to provide Mr. Lowe with his Charter rights.

Charter of Rights: Warrant Officer André Gagnon and Corp..

By failing to allow a 15 - 20 minute delay, the arresting officer had acted in violation of Mark's Charter rights.

Despite the trial judge's ruling that Vander Wier had brutally assaulted T and violated his Charter rights, Crown counsel invited Officer Vander Wier to sit at the counsel table as assisting oOfficer Vander Wier to sit at the counsel table as assisting officerofficer.

An officer is violating Section 8 of the Charter of Rights, the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, in the event where they enter the domicile without permission of the resident, or they refuse to leave after the resident revokes the invitation.

I had forgotten that Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer), 2002 SCC 68 found s. 51 (e) to be a violation of Charter rights.

The Canadian Charter grants the «right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure,» but one of the main exceptions to this is a search incident to an arrest, which allows a police officer to frisk a person who has been lawfully arrested.

The first issue is whether the trial judge erred in finding that the accused had been psychologically detained by the police officer, thereby breaching his s. 10 Charter rights.

On appeal, he argued that his s. 8 Charter rights had been violated when the police officer conducted a pat - down search, which the majority of the Court of Appeal dismissed.

At trial, Mr. Mali's counsel argued that when Mr. Mali informed the officer that he did not want to speak with him, the officer had been obliged to leave, and that his failure to do so, and Mr. Mali's subsequent arrest and demand for breath samples violated Mr. Mali's s. 8 Charter rights to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.

The Charter requires authorities (whether it be a police officer, a Cabinet Minister or a civil servant) to observe Charter rights and freedoms, and thus to comply with the rule of law.

In a recent decision, an Ontario judge found that a Toronto police officer had assaulted a man that had been arrested for drunk driving, and showed a «lack of honesty» with respect to what happened that therefore, violating the man's Charter rights.

Justice Donna Hackett ruled recently that four police officers assaulted a Toronto man in custody and used excessive force that breached his Charter rights, according to the Toronto Star.

learned about our Charter of Rights and Freedoms and took it upon myself to question police officers about why we were being stopped and searched so often.

28 Mr. C. submits that the entry of the police officers into his apartment and the subsequent search of his apartment and the seizure of his property without his consent was unreasonable and therefore constituted a violation of his rights as guaranteed by s. 8 of the Charter.

The seriousness of the breach, if any, was diminished by the facts that there was no ongoing disregard for the accuseds» Charter rights, that there was no indication that any possible breach was deliberate, wilful or flagrant, and that the officer acted entirely in good faith.

Police officers are justifiably respected as emblematic of the Charter values and rights that empower them as custodians of public safety.

Police officers are not required to provide their own cell phones to detained or arrested persons to facilitate communication with counsel under s. 10 (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

R v Suberu established that police officers are required to immediately facilitate the right to counsel upon arrest or detention, «subject to concerns for officer or public safety, and such limitations as prescribed by law and justified under s. 1 of the Charter.»

In R. v. Fearon, 2013 ONCA 106, the Ontario Court of Appeal held that the Defendant's Charter rights were not violated when police officers searched his cellphone in the course of an arrest on burglary charges.

The result is very entertaining, inflammatory, and doubtless sells newspapers but does serious violence to the administration of justice and the presumption of innocence — two principles Ms. Blatchford has shown general disdain for on numerous prior occasions (unless the accused happens to be a police officer in which case she becomes a born - again believer in the Charter and all its myriad procedural rights heretofore known as «technicalities»).

Upon arrest or detention, a police officer must advise a detainee of their s. 10 Charter right to retain and instruct counsel without delay.

[65] The corrections officers» conduct which caused the breach of Mr. Ward's Charter rights was also serious.