What is the current state of the law on interception of communications between two parties?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Pritchard, 2002 BCSC 470 (CanLII):
Before Duarte v. The Queen, 1990 CanLII 150 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 30, 53 C.C.C. (3d) 1, interception by the state of communications between two persons, one of whom consented to the interception (“participant interceptions”), did not require prior authorization under the Criminal Code. Amendments were made to the Code as a result of that decision.
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