Sentences with phrase «cost of his acquittal»
Justice Doherty concluded, at paras. 73 - 4, that Justice Ray had allowed the seriousness of the charge to overwhelm the exclusion analysis and adopted what Justice S.D. Frankel said in R v Ahmed - Kadir, 2015 BCCA 346, at para. 111: «The importance of maintaining respect for Charter rights and ensuring that the justice system is above reproach outweighs the collective cost of his acquittal.»
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Beside the point, but still: I was recently surprised that some jurisdictions apparently have those found not guilty of traffic violations pay the court costs associated with their acquittal.
Robert Jappie (Senior Associate — Crime and Regulatory & Maya Paunrana (Solicitor — Crime & Regulatory): «In criminal proceedings, schedule 7 of LASPO Act 2012 made it much more difficult to successfully recover legal costs on behalf of the defendant in the event of an acquittal.