Can a criminal court exclude evidence obtained in violation of a provincial statute?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v Mandip Sandhu, 2015 ONSC 1679 (CanLII):
A regulation pursuant to a provincial statute cannot empower criminal courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of its terms. see Bisaillon v. Keable 1983 CanLII 26 (SCC), [1983] 2 S.C.R. 60 at p. 109.
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