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Criminal law 2025 ONCA 697

R. v. Bhatti

Ontario Court of Appeal held the general warrant authorized seizure of multiple phones and the nearby door void search, so there was no s. 8 breach; appeal allowed and a new trial ordered.

  • Search and seizure
  • General warrant (s.487.01)
  • Digital device search
  • Charter s.8
  • Charter s.24(2)
  • Warrant interpretation
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Criminal law 2021 BCSC 2367

R. v. Haire

The court considered exclusion of digital evidence after finding a s. 8 Charter breach in the search warrant process, and admitted the evidence under s. 24(2).

  • Charter s.8
  • Charter s.24(2)
  • Search warrant
  • Information to obtain (ito)
  • Digital device forensics
  • Child pornography offences
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Criminal law 2019 BCSC 1590

R. v. Van Humbeck

The court upheld most of a warrant-based search for child pornography evidence, but found paragraph 1.b. of the first warrant defective and unsupported by the record.

  • Charter s.8 search and seizure
  • Charter s.9 arbitrary detention
  • Charter s.24(2) exclusion of evidence
  • Warrants and informations to obtain (itos)
  • Forensic search of electronic storage media
  • Child pornography offences
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Criminal law 2019 BCSC 125

R. v. Salehi

The court held that a warrant listing the accused’s cell phone as an item to seize did not specifically authorize a search of its contents, so the phone search breached s. 8.

  • Section 8 charter
  • Search warrants
  • Prior authorization to search computers and mobile phones
  • Facial validity of warrant
  • R. v. vu application
  • Judicial comity (re hansard spruce mills)
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