What is the Attorney General's responsibility to ensure that North 4 is not used in the context of the use of North 4?

Nova Scotia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Alcorn v. Nova Scotia (Attorney General), 2020 NSSC 276 (CanLII):

While the use of North 4 may be justified in relation to certain inmates, it is nevertheless important for the Attorney General to ensure inmates receive information relied upon to justify their confinement. It is also the Attorney General's responsibility to ensure that matters can proceed expeditiously and that challenges already experienced by inmates advancing such litigation are not further pronounced by the failure to provide information in a timely manner. Nothing less can be accepted, without good reason. As stated in Mission Institution v. Khela 2014 SCC 24, “no one should be deprived of their liberty without lawful authority” and the remedy of habeas corpus “is crucial to those whose residual liberty has been taken from them” (para 54). How can this court expeditiously review an alleged further deprivation of an inmates’ liberty if there is a delay in provision of materials to an inmate? Background

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