Taken into consideration with the haste with which officials reached the conclusion that Mr. Galloway was inadmissible and took steps to have him barred before
the assessment of his admissibility was completed, these statements could have supported findings of bias and bad faith against the respondents.
Instead, we should use the Mohan voir dire safeguard which exists for this very reason — the safeguard allows
an assessment of admissibility,» says Sukanya Pillay, CCLA's executive director and general counsel.
Not exact matches
Paragraphs 4.1 to 4.8 decide upon the
admissibility of the civil organisation plaintiffs, before Section 5 engages in the substantive
assessment of the claims.
The Court went on to distinguish two types
of situations depending on the outcome
of the
admissibility assessment.
We argued that the
admissibility of DRE opinion on whether a person's ability to operate a vehicle is impaired by a drug or a combination
of alcohol and a drug should not be considered expert evidence without first undergoing a judicial
assessment through a Mohan voir dire.
The
admissibility of the fresh evidence turns on whether that evidence, considered with the rest
of the evidence adduced at trial, could be expected to have affected the result or, more specifically, could be expected to have affected the trial judge's
assessment of Mr. Narine's credibility: see Ontario Federation
of Anglers and Hunters v. Ontario (Ministry
of Natural Resources), [2002] O.J. No. 1445, at para. 63.