Police Powers in the Metaverse: Why the Charter’s Section 8 Will Have to Change - N.J. Peterman
Chief Justice Dickson famously advised in Hunter v Southam that section 8 of the Charter protects “people, not places.” With the concept of the metaverse on the rise, how will this apply to the internet as we know it? Like the internet, the emergence of the metaverse will have a profound impact on how our nation’s judiciary interprets s. 8 of the Charter, the right which provides everyone “to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.”
R v Stairs: The Castle is Under Siege - Julian Brown
In Privacy in Peril: Hunter v Southam and the Drift from Reasonable Search Protections, Professors Richard Jochelson and David Ireland discuss the expansion of police search powers and the erosion of the principles that once served as a shining beacon of privacy laid out by Justice Dickson in Hunter v Southam. One notable drift is the police’s ability to conduct a search incident to an arrest, which stems from the police’s ancillary powers doctrine.
