Are searches conducted pursuant to a search warrant reasonable and warrantless?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Alharoun, 2020 NSPC 23 (CanLII):
Searches conducted pursuant to a search warrant are presumptively reasonable, all warrantless searches are presumptively or prima facie unreasonable, per Southam v. Hunter, 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), [1984] 2 SCR 145. The crown has the burden to rebut this presumption of unreasonableness.
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