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Search & Seizure

Section 8 of the Charter can be used as a basis to challenge search warrants, wiretaps, and other seizures by law enforcement officers including breath and blood samples in impaired driving cases. Greg DelBigio has significant experience dealing with this area of the law.

Greg frequently represents clients facing criminal proceedings that arise out of searches of their premises or person and seizure of incriminating evidence including:

  • Drug searches
  • DUI searches (breathalyzer / blood alcohol samples)
  • Searches in the context of Proceeds of Crime / Money Laundering offences
  • Searches for evidence used during the commission of a crime.

Search Warrants

The law governing the legality of a search warrant and the use of evidence obtained during the course of a search is closely related to Search and Seizure and constitutes another area in which Greg DelBigio regularly represents clients.

Recent News
17 Jun 2010

Air India Inquiry report and recommendations released. Greg DelBigio acted as pro bono co-counsel for the Canadian Bar Association in it’s intervention at the Inquiry.

2 May 2010

Vancouver criminal lawyer, Gregory DelBigio represented the intervener Canadian Bar Association in R. v. Cunningham, 2010 SCC 10, a Supreme Court of Canada decision holding that criminal courts can order lawyers to work for free to prevent serious harm to the administration of justice.