Are evidentiary rulings by the preliminary inquiry judge not jurisdictional errors?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Steven Browne, Adrian Williams, Amal Greensword & Adeyemi Ogunbitan, 2014 ONSC 2324 (CanLII):
Focusing on evidentiary rulings at a preliminary inquiry, evidentiary rulings by the preliminary inquiry judge are not jurisdictional errors: Attorney General for Quebec v. Cohen, 1979 CanLII 223 (SCC), [1979] 2 S.C.R. 305, at pp. 307-308.
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