AUTOMATIC ROADSIDE DRIVING PROHIBITION CASE IS ON SUPREME COURT OF CANADA'S SPRING DOCKET

A review of the court case of Sivia v. British Columbia, 2014 BCCA 79 appears in this week's issue of The Lawyers Weekly.  The article notes that the case deals with whether provinces can use their constitutional powers over property and civil rights to avoid Charter protections and issues that arise in criminal prosecutions for impaired driving by creating administrative prohibition regimes with automatic penalties and restricted reviews. The article states that the Supreme Court of Canada will be hearing arguments on the case this spring, and that the case has attracted the intervention of the Attorney General of Canada, as well as the attorneys general of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Lawyers Weekly, April 10, 2015