| dbo:abstract
|
- R v Sinclair 2010 SCC 35 is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada on a detainee's right to counsel under section 10(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Specifically, the case addresses two issues regarding the police's implementation duty under the right to counsel: 1) does a detainee have the right to have a lawyer present during police questioning, and 2) does a detainee have the right to make multiple phone calls to their lawyer. A majority of the Court answered the first question in the negative, and answered the second question in the negative, subject to a change of circumstances. The parties to the case were the appellant, Sinclair, the respondent, the Attorney General of British Columbia, and the following interveners: the Attorney General of Ontario, the Director of Public Prosecutions of Canada, the , the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The case was part of a trilogy of cases released by the Supreme Court, along with and . (en)
|
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
| |
| dbo:wikiPageID
| |
| dbo:wikiPageLength
|
- 12256 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
|
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
| |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
| |
| dbp:caseName
| |
| dbp:citations
| |
| dbp:decidedDate
| |
| dbp:dissent
|
- Binnie J. (en)
- LeBel and Fish JJ. (en)
|
| dbp:docket
| |
| dbp:fullCaseName
|
- Trent Terrence Sinclair v Her Majesty the Queen (en)
|
| dbp:heardDate
| |
| dbp:history
|
- Judgment for the Crown in the British Columbia Court of Appeal. (en)
|
| dbp:joindissent
| |
| dbp:joinmajority
|
- Deschampes, Rothstein, and Cromwell JJ. (en)
|
| dbp:majority
|
- McLachlin C.J. and Charron J. (en)
|
| dbp:ratio
|
- A detainee does not have the right to have counsel present during a police interrogation. (en)
- A detainee does not generally have the right to have additional phone calls with counsel, unless there has been a change of circumstances. (en)
|
| dbp:ruling
| |
| dbp:scc
| |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
| |
| dcterms:subject
| |
| gold:hypernym
| |
| rdf:type
| |
| rdfs:comment
|
- R v Sinclair 2010 SCC 35 is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada on a detainee's right to counsel under section 10(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Specifically, the case addresses two issues regarding the police's implementation duty under the right to counsel: 1) does a detainee have the right to have a lawyer present during police questioning, and 2) does a detainee have the right to make multiple phone calls to their lawyer. A majority of the Court answered the first question in the negative, and answered the second question in the negative, subject to a change of circumstances. (en)
|
| rdfs:label
| |
| owl:sameAs
| |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom
| |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
| |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects
of | |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
of | |
| is foaf:primaryTopic
of | |
