Dive into the principles of search and seizure law, including forms of warrants, court jurisdiction for different types of warrants, prospective warrants, nighttime execution, and sealing orders. Consider what are reasonable grounds to suspect vs. reasonable grounds to believe and the difference between investigation thresholds for charges and trial. This on-demand program was originally broadcasted as a webinar as part of our Criminal Law Webinar Series on April 16, 2021. Total running time is 1 hour, 4 minutes.

Join senior practitioners as well as members of the Bench for an in-depth discussion on essential criminal law topics. This on-demand series was originally broadcasted as webinars between April – June, 2021. Each session is approximately 1 hour.

This paper provides an update on law office searches, focusing on the legal requirements necessary to conduct searches of law office paper files and electronically stored information. The author reviews the guidelines established by the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Lavallee, Rackel & Heinz et al. and analyzes how the Lavallee guidelines apply to law office searches. This paper was presented at the Privacy & Litigation program held in October of 2012.  

This paper is complimentary.