Supreme Court Upholds Judicial Oversight of Police Surveillance
By admin on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 23:47
On Friday the Supreme Court upheld the need for judicial oversight of police surveillance activities. In R. v. Tse. the Supreme Court upheld that under emergency conditions police may undertake surveillance activities without a warrant, however the existing provisions for this in the Criminal Code were ruled to be overly broad. The court stressed the need of these emergency powers to be well justified, temporary, include police accountability to judicial oversight, and that the subject under surveillance must be notified after the fact.