What rights does Section 11 of the Charter say about a person who is prosecuted by the state for a quasi-criminal offence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Potratz v. Potratz, 2015 BCSC 1608 (CanLII):
Section 11 of the Charter is clearly restricted to both criminal and penal matters. Specifically, these rights protect those who are prosecuted by the state for public offences involving punitive sanctions, including quasi-criminal offences: R v. Wigglesworth, 1987 CanLII 41 (SCC), [1987] 2 S.C.R. 541 [Wigglesworth] at p. 554.
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