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This post marks the official death of my reading pile, which involved a read of the current edition of the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law – one entitled Privacy, Identity, and Control: Emerging Issues in Data Protection. I’m admittedly still digesting the ideas, so am just poin … Read more »

On July 12th, the British Columbia Supreme Court held that a requester had not rebutted the presumption of privilege that applied to the total amount spent by government in an ongoing legal dispute. Here is the court’s argument for the withholding of such information: [61]        The Adjudicator’s r … Read more »

Here are the slides from my Advocates’ Society presentation today. I addressed the following two questions: Today, is a right-thinking judge (in a non-criminal case) likely to exclude evidence obtained in breach of privacy? The intrusion upon seclusion tort. What have we learned about elements and d … Read more »

Vernon Professional Firefighters’ Association I.A.F.F. LOCAL 1517 v Corporation of the City of Vernon is a well argued video surveillance case in which Arbitrator Dorsey held that a fire service properly employed video surveillance in response to a suspicion that documents had been taken from a fili … Read more »

On October 25th the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed certification motions in two actions that claimed damages for the misappropriation of contact information from a hospital information system. The information was taken and used to sell RESPs to the families of newborns. Most significant … Read more »