What is the current state of the law in Canada in common law?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from U.S.A. v. Gunn, 2003 MBQB 276 (CanLII):
The court recognizes that Canadians may well be tried by a jurisdiction with a very different legal system from that of Canada. Sopinka J. said in Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 1993 CanLII 75 (SCC), [1993] 3 S.C.R. 519 at 590, “A mere common law rule does not suffice to constitute a principle of fundamental justice …”
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