The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights

Enforcement

s.24 – Enforcement

s.24(1) – Enforcement of guaranteed rights and freedoms

• New Brunswick (Minister of Health and Community Services) v. G.(J.), [1999] 3 S.C.R. 46 (Minister of Health and Community Services applying to extend order granting him custody of three children; parent denied legal aid)
• R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd., [1985] 1 S.C.R. 295 (Sunday closing)

s.24(2) – Exclusion of evidence bringing administration of justice into disrepute

• R. v. Grant, 2009 SCC 32 (how should courts decide what evidence to exclude from trial once there has been a Charter breach?)
• R. v. Harrison, 2009 SCC 34 (when does police misconduct necessitate the exclusion of evidence?
  
• R. v. Kang-Brown [2008] 1 S.C.R. 456 (question of whether dog sniff could be deemed a search; should evidence found through dog sniff search be excluded if search was unreasonable?)