Is the adjudicator of a motor vehicle adjudicator a judge in a non-criminal context?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Helgesen v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), 2002 BCSC 1391 (CanLII):
The foregoing all flow from the administrative, non-criminal nature of the proceedings before the adjudicator. The adjudicator does not perform the same function as a judge in a criminal trial and the hearing itself is not as adversarial: Fowler v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), [1999] B.C.J. No. 2747 at para. 10 (S.C.).
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