Prostitution injunction trades injustice for injustice
No reasonable person could claim that the street nuisance problem created by prostitutes and their customers in Vancouver’ West End is acceptable or should be allowed to continue. West End […]
The polygraph as a truth detector
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association believes that there is convincing evidence to suggest that the use of the polygraph is arbitrary, subjective, biased toward accusations of guilt and claims of […]
Capital Punishment 1984
Any discussion of capital punishment must acknowledge three things which can be said quickly and firmly against it. First, capital punishment consists in bringing about the death of someone. Since […]
Submission to the legal aid task force
Mr. Chairman and members of the task force, you have in your materials four papers presented by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association. They are: Brief in support of a comprehensive […]
Bill C-9: Democracy and security Submission to the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
C-9 is a clear improvement over C-157 inasmuch as the Director is now under the control of the Solicitor General, and the mandate and powers of the Service as narrowed. […]
Canadian Elections Act, Bill C-169
February 24, 1984 The Right Honourable Pierre Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada Parliament Buildings Ottawa, Ontario Dear Mr. Trudeau. Re: Bill C-169 The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is concerned about […]
Comments on the “Creation Science” movement in British Columbia
Introduction (1995) In the 1960s the last statute banning the teaching of evolution in U.S. public schools was struck down. Fundamentalist Protestants who preferred their children to learn about their […]
Comments on coroner’s inquest procedures
Reporting and investigations of deaths It is only when death occurs under “suspicious circumstances” that the Coroners Act, RSBC, 1979, Chapter 68, requires that the death be reported to the […]
Draft brief on Parliament and administrative agencies Submitted to the Law Reform Commission of Canada
Thank you very much for forwarding to us a copy of “Parliament and Administrative Agencies”, by Frans P. Slater, for our comments. We support the general position that administrative agencies […]
Costs to accused on acquittal
Introduction Although the primary function of our criminal justice system is to protect society from dangerous conduct, the system also has built-in safeguards to protect the rights of the innocent […]