What is the legal test for fishing expeditions?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Philpott, 2002 CanLII 25164 (ON SC):
[71] It is not sufficient if there is only a possibility of finding evidence. This would be “a very low standard which would validate intrusion on the basis of suspicion, and authorize fishing expeditions”: see Hunter v. Southam Inc., supra, at pp. 114-5.
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