Saturday
Feb012020
REASONABLE GROUNDS TO BELIEVE
Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 9:09AM The provisions of the new "Offences Relating to Conveyances" part of the Criminal Code refer to requiring "reasonable grounds to believe" in a number of sections. However, what does that requirement mean? The British Columbia Court of Appeal reviewed that issue in R. v. Glendinning, 2019 BCCA 365:
The arresting officer must have subjectively believed an offence had occurred and that belief must have been objectively reasonable from the viewpoint (or through the “lens”) of a person with the officer’s experience and training.