In support of a comprehensive provincial legal aid plan
Summary Consistent with its position that legal counsel should be available to everything, regardless of their ability to pay, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association recommends the government of B.C. […]
Writs of Assistance
Summary The Writ of Assistance is a special type of search warrant, issued under the authority of any one of four federal statutes: Customs Act, Excise Act, Narcotics Control Act, […]
Brief presented to the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-medicinal Use of Drugs
Introduction Some intractable social problems have non-medical use of drugs as one aspect, and the criminal law has been used extensively, with very questionable success, in the effort to alleviate […]
Religion in public schools
I. Some distinctions There are three ways in which religion has or can play a part in the public schools of British Columbia. These ways should be clearly distinguished from […]
Censorship: Hate literature
Summary “Hate literature” represents only one form among many taken by ideas alleged to be so dangerous, indecent, ugly, harmful, or offensive as to require suppression. The argument against this […]
Compensations to victims of crime
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association supports legislation such as that pioneered in Saskatchewan’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Act (1967), which provides as follows: A Crimes Compensation Board will hear applications under […]
Compensation to victims of crime: Position on Saskatchewan’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Act
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association supports the Saskatchewan Criminal Injuries Compensation Act(1967) in most respects. This legislation provides as follows: A Crimes Compensation Board will hear applications under the Act. […]
Pretrial publicity: Report, draft statute, comments
Summary The BCCLA is convinced that pretrial publicity does affect the outcome of criminal trials. It follows, therefore, that some limitations on the freedom of the press must be defined […]
Interrogation of Minors in the School
Summary The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association believes that the increasingly frequent practice of police interrogation of minors in schools presents a threat to the civil liberties of these minors […]
Restrictive covenants
Summary Restrictive covenants are interests in land registrable as charges under the Land Registry Act R.S.B.C. (1960) C.208. We are specifically concerned here with those restrictive covenants based on racial […]