Given the appellant’s position that his Charter rights were breached, the trial judge directed a voir dire, following which he concluded that there had been no breaches and thus admitted the certificates. He first made this determination on August 11, 2006. On March 29, 2007, he acceded to a defence request to reopen the voir dire to consider a decision made subsequent to the August 11th ruling. In R v. Bloom, 2006 BCSC 1823, Masuhara J. determined that there had been a breach of the accused’s Charter rights in that his right to counsel of choice was denied.
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