Lawyers are not always well-liked. Over the years we took a lot of hits by MADD, various police officers and others who view us as the lawyers who put drunk drivers back on the road. Sometimes it gets us down. When we succeed, our clients quietly move on and get on with their lives. Sometimes […]
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We’ve alluded several times on our blog to the fact that we take heat for what we do. We are outspoken, critical of government, and skeptical about much of the Government propaganda related to impaired driving. What we haven’t told you has been the extent to which we have had to defend our positions. This
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We received some emails and calls since our first blog post on the IRP scheme version 2 court challenge asking how these court cases may affect Warn Immediate Roadside Prohibition cases. If you’re up to date with the main court challenges to the IRP scheme, you may already know that the Sivia decision held that IRPs
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It’s the anniversary of a dark day in the history of BC. June 15 marks the second year that the second version of the IRP scheme has been in effect. The Government would like you to think its a fait accompli at this point — that the IRP scheme isn’t going away, that they pulled
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The IRP news today is all about the UVic paper on IRP statistics. We’ve read it. The news reports are inaccurate and there are some significant difficulties with the paper in our opinion. The most important thing that they say is hidden in the last pages of this paper and that is this: they can’t
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Many people and businesses are celebrating the end of the hockey lockout/strike. From taxi drivers, ticket resellers, restaurant and bar owners, hospitality industry workers, the people and the companies that sell advertising, the businesses that supply all of the sports bars and restaurants and stadiums with all of their stuff — they’re all happy, and
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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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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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Most of us would like to avoid death as long as possible. Of course, one of the most common ways that people die prematurely is in car accidents. It’s no surprise really. Our brains are the results of millions of years of evolution. Until about a hundred years ago, people would go through most of
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The annual Celebration of Light fireworks display is on in Vancouver, and each year we have a number of clients either arrested or issued an Immediate Roadside Prohibition on these evenings. The Vancouver Police have lamented recently that drinking and driving seems to be on the increase based on the number of people whom they
Last week CTV reported that the number of people who were given driving prohibitions in connection with an alleged drinking and driving offence since December 1, 2011, was a fraction of the number from the same period the year before and about half of what we would see in a typical year. These are important
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