What is a reasonable expectation of privacy in a private residence?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Roy, 2010 BCCA 448 (CanLII):
As a general proposition, one’s private residence is a place where a reasonable expectation of privacy will arise. As contended by the appellant, the notion that “every man’s house is his castle” is firmly entrenched in our jurisprudence: Eccles v. Bourque, 1974 CanLII 191 (SCC), [1975] 2 S.C.R. 739, 19 C.C.C. (2d) 129. However, this proposition is not without limit. One’s actions may alter the reasonable expectation of privacy one may have in one’s residence.
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