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Administrative law 2022 BCSC 1115

Alam v. Matsqui Institution (Warden)

The court dismissed a habeas corpus application by a federal inmate challenging COVID-era limits on computer and recreation time as bound to fail.

  • Access to justice
  • Residual liberty
  • Prerogative writs
  • Grievance procedure
  • Covid-19 restrictions
  • Prisoner computer access
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Habeas corpus 2022 NSSC 159

Williams v. Central Nova Correctional Facility

The court dismissed the habeas application because the respondent met the burden to show the restriction of the applicant's residual liberty was lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair given the applicant's security risk, disciplinary history and applicable public health directives; deference to facility management was appropriate.

  • Solitary confinement
  • Procedural fairness
  • Security classification
  • Remand detention
  • Covid-19 restrictions
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Criminal law 2021 NSSC 203

R. v. Enns

The court dismissed Enns’s COVID-related Charter relief as moot given the adjournment and changing public-health context but held that the low Vukelich threshold was met for the venue complaint; the claim that proximity of the HRP detachment and signage to the Mellor Courthouse could impair jury impartiality and appearance of fairness will proceed to a Charter voir dire on ss.7 and 11(d).

  • Charter rights
  • Change of venue
  • Vukelich summary dismissal
  • Mootness
  • Jury representativeness
  • Bias and appearance of fairness
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Administrative law 2020 FC 1169

DeschĂŞnes v. Canada (Attorney General)

Motion for a mandatory interlocutory injunction dismissed. The Court held the applicant had not exhausted internal remedies and had not met the injunction test.

  • Interlocutory injunction
  • Implementation of parole board decision
  • Exhaustion of internal remedies
  • Covid-19 restrictions
  • Unescorted temporary absence (uta)
  • Interlocutory-injunction
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