
Are the “Charter damages” awarded by the courts a sufficient deterrent?
The most common deterrent for beach of Charter rights is exclusion of evidence. Criminal law databases are full of cases where the police have successfully caught a bad guy, but the case has been thrown out because they got their hands on the incriminating evidence by trampling on the bad guy’s rights.
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