Does the Attorney General have a right to appeal against the dismissal of an information laid by the War time prices and trade board?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lyttle v. Yastrub, 1961 CanLII 238 (SK QB):
To take the matter a step further, it was held in Rex v. Peters 1943 CanLII 417 (SK QB), [1943] 1 WWR 487, 80 CCC 158, that the attorney-general of Canada had no right to appeal against the dismissal of an information laid by a representative of the war time prices and trade board. There the appeal was launched by “His Majesty the King represented by the Attorney General of Canada.”
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