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The court held that police participants could give translation evidence from Arabic to English on a voir dire, and overruled the defence objection.
On a voir dire, the court held that RCMP interpreter Andy Do was properly qualified to give opinion evidence translating Vietnamese intercepts and text messages.
Leave to appeal was dismissed because the proposed appeal did not raise a question of law of sufficient public importance under s.839(1), the fresh evidence related to factual matters and could have been raised earlier, and the trial judge's finding that the accused lacked the necessary subjective belief defeated the citizen's arrest defence.
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Court held Detective Constable Sangha could testify about general urban street jargon, but not as an expert translator or interpreter of Punjabi-English intercepted calls.
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