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Document BCCLA’s Written Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs: Review of Bill C-5, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act

Posted on October 19, 2022

Topic: Criminal, Drug Policy

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint letter to Chief Justice of Canada regarding the Court’s practice about recognizing co-counsel on published judgments

Posted on April 19, 2021

Topic: Administrative

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Letter Raising Concerns About Potential Impact on Habaes Corpus Applications in Nova Scotia

Posted on April 13, 2021

Topic: Access to Justice, Administrative, Democratic Rights, Discrimination, Due Process, Human Rights, Immigration, Prisoners' Rights, Sentencing

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Open Letter Calling All Provincial Political Leaders for a BC Action Plan on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit People

Posted on October 19, 2020

Topic: Democratic Rights, Human Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Structural Deficiencies with the Proposed Independent Review Panel for Nova Scotia Mass Shooting

Posted on July 28, 2020

Topic: Due Process, Police Accountability

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Letter Regarding Protection Orders During COVID-19 Pandemic

Posted on April 20, 2020

Topic: Access to Justice, COVID-19

Type: Policy Submissions

Document BCCLA Opposes Alberta’s “Anti-Protestor” Bill 1, Critical Infrastructure Defence Act

Posted on March 10, 2020

Topic: Protest Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Open Letter to BC Solicitor General Opposing the Community Safety Act

Posted on July 3, 2019

Topic: Access to Justice, Due Process, Human Rights, Police Accountability, Poverty & Rights, Search and Seizure

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Joint letter on Access of Information and Protection of Privacy in Alberta

Posted on June 19, 2019

Topic: Freedom of Information, Privacy

Type: Policy Submissions

Document Letter in relation to potential actions in Wet’suwet’en territories

Posted on January 7, 2019

Topic: Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Protest Rights

Type: Policy Submissions

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