In the context of a search warrant being issued and nothing found, is protecting the interests of an innocent person a social value?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Commissioner of Competition v. X, 2018 ONSC 3374 (CanLII):
In the pre-Charter ground-breaking case of Attorney-General v. MacIntyre, 1982 CanLII 14 (SCC), [1982] 1 S.C.R. 175, at pp. 186-7, Dickson J. refers to protecting the interests of an “innocent person” as one of the “social values of superordinate importance”, in the context of search warrants being issued and nothing found.
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