Can a search or seizure be conducted for another purpose?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Ravenshoe Services Ltd. v. Canada (Commissioner of Competition), 2001 CanLII 28354 (ON SC):

Likewise, counsel for the applicants point out that searches or seizures which are authorized and constitutionally valid for one purpose may be found to be invalid if conducted for another purpose. Supportive of that proposition they rely upon bodily substance cases where blood has been taken for medical purposes and used in prosecutions such as in Regina v. Dyment (1988), 1988 CanLII 10 (SCC), 45 C.C.C. (3d) 244 (S.C.C.).

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