risk management

September 3, 2015

Safety Regulations and the Charter

I wrote earlier this week about the decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario R. v. Michaud, 2015 ONCA 585, which upheld the constitutionality of regulations requiring trucks to be equipped with a speed limiter that prevents them going faster than 105 km/h. The Court found that the regulations could put some truck drivers in danger by Continue reading

Constitutional law, New Technologies, The Justice System

Charter, judicial review, risk management, safety regulations, security of the person, self-driving cars
September 1, 2015

Safety, First

Yesterday, the Ontario Court of Appeal issued an interesting decision in R. v. Michaud, 2015 ONCA 585, a test case challenging the constitutionality of regulations requiring trucks to be equipped with a speed limiter that prevents them going faster than 105 km/h. The Court found that the regulations infringed the truckers’ right to the security of Continue reading

Constitutional law

Charter, fundamental justice, overbreadth, risk management, safety regulations, security of the person