Where a search is conducted without a warrant, is the search presumptively unreasonable?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Clarke, 2017 BCCA 453 (CanLII):
Where a search is carried out without a warrant, it is presumptively unreasonable: Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145 at 161.
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