On Friday, July 30, 2010 the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its decision in R. v. Cornell, 2010 SCC 31, a case that considered the reasonableness of “hard entry” searches. A hard entry usually involves the police entering a home to conduct a search with the use of force and surprise. In this case, nine [...]
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The Divisional Court released its decision in the case Warman v. Fournier, Fournier and John Does 1-8, which dealt with anonymous internet commentators. The question before the Court was whether a party to a lawsuit should be automatically forced to disclose identifying information about an anonymous commentator simply because a statement of claim had been [...] The CCLA has been granted leave to intervene in R. v. Gomboc, a case scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada on May 19, 2010. The Gomboc case involves a challenge to the use of Digital Recording Ammeters (DRAs) by police to investigate suspected marijuana grow-ops. A DRA is capable of monitoring [...] On Thursday April 8th the CCLA will appear in an Ottawa courtroom to argue that publicly naming anonymous internet users, against their will, implicates significant privacy and freedom of expression concerns. The case, Warman v. Fournier and John Does 1-8, arises from a lawsuit which alleges that some anonymous comments made on an Internet discussion [...] Image: L3/TSA |
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