As most of our readers know, the first version of the 90-day IRP scheme for blowing Fail on an ASD was found unconstitutional by the BC Supreme Court. Despite that, the Court gave no remedy to all of the people who received these unconstitutional driving prohibitions. There were lots of issues, and neither the Government […]
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On December 17, 2012, the Honorable Mr. Wally Oppal released the long-awaited report in the Missing Women’s Inquiry. This Report came after months of testimony from police officers, Crown-Counsel prosecutors, sex trade workers and the families of missing and murdered women. Just shy of 1,500 pages, in six separate volumes, the Report into the Missing
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The news of the shooting in Connecticut should at the very least provide perspective for all of us when we think of our family, friends and the people we care for. In the last few days most of us have turned our minds to just how much we care about the people around us. It
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In many jurisdictions you can trust the research that the Government does concerning social issues because the branch of the Government that does the research and the reporting are at an arm’s length from the political process. Relatively independent researchers comb through statistics, work out the processes behind the statistics and report without any spin
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By virtue of the fact that we handle so many driving cases, we can get a sense right away if there has been a change in driving behaviour. When the Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme came out we noticed an immediate increase in the number of hit and run cases from the increase in people contacting
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We explained the other day that people who disputed their IRP issued in November 2011 have been getting letters from the OSMV saying that they want them to have another hearing. In most cases the hearing was already conducted, but the letter says that the adjudicator no longer works there (not always true) or that
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We started receiving letters last week from the OSMV concerning clients we acted for to dispute their IRP in November 2011. There were three variations on the letter but the essence was the same for each: the OSMV wants to have another hearing for an old IRP. A year ago the BC Supreme Court found
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