On Saturday June 15, 2013, it will have been one year since the Immediate Roadside Prohibition / IRP scheme came back into effect. Of course, the BC Supreme Court found...

There are now a number of different types of DUIs in BC and we defend all of them. The most common two types of DUIs are Immediate Roadside Prohibitions and...

When the Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme first came into effect on September 20, 2010, there was a lot of discussion among criminal lawyers about whether it was worthwhile to appeal...

There are three important IRP appeals now winding their way through the courts that have the prospect of changing the Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme in a significant manner. Last week...

10.  Judge, jury, executioner. Although this is a common complaint, the police have no discretion under the law. So in a sense there is no judge or jury. 9.  Punishment long before...

As our regular readers know, over a couple of years our blog has become the source for news on Immediate Roadside Prohibitions (IRPs). As far as we're concerned, the current...

In early September 2012 we were reviewing disclosure in a client's Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) case issued in Vancouver and we noticed that something was a little funky. Now, we...

Roughly seventeen drunk driving cases have been thrown out after police cut corners by photocopying alcohol breath test calibration forms. When defence lawyer Paul Doroshenko was working on a case involving...

We decided in the summer of 2010 that we would take on the 90-day Immediate Roadside Prohibition scheme and that we would defend clients with IRPs despite the fact that...

When Sivia was argued the Government did not put forward evidence of a drunk driving expert, i.e. a forensic toxicologist. We weren't surprised. There are dozens of experts in the...