Human Rights/Criminal/Labour Law: The Perjury Prosecutions of Mounties in the Dziekanski Case
October 28, 2014 / by joe chater / in Criminal Law Matters, Halifax Law Articles, Human Rights, Labour Law
For some background on the case, please reference the following CBC News article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/robert-dziekanski-questioning-the-public-interest-in-prosecuting-mounties-for-perjury-1.2813288. This is a tough case. For those who have not reviewed the above link, or are otherwise unfamiliar with the case, there
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