What is the informer privilege rule and what is the effect of it?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Lindsay, 2015 ONSC 1369 (CanLII):
The informer privilege rule is of fundamental importance to the workings of the criminal justice system. As described in Basaillon v. Keable, 1983 CanLII 26 (SCC), [1983] 2 S.C.R. 60 at p. 105, 7 C.C.C. (3rd) 385, 2 D.L.R. (4th) 193: The rule gives a peace officer the power to promise his informers secrecy expressly or by implication, with a guarantee sanctioned by the law that this promise will be kept even in court, and to receive in exchange with this promise information about which it would be extremely difficult for him to carry out his duties and ensure that the criminal law is obeyed. (b) the risk of identifying the confidential informant
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