What is the current state of the law in relation to search and seizure?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Fearon, [2014] 3 SCR 621, 2014 SCC 77 (CanLII):
In order to resolve the issue, we must strike a balance between the demands of effective law enforcement and everyone’s right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. In short, we must identify the point at which the “public’s interest in being left alone by government must give way to the government’s interest in intruding on the individual’s privacy in order to advance its goals, notably those of law enforcement”: Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145, at pp. 159-60.
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