Frank Albert Wolff was caught speeding with a stash of marijuana in his pickup truck. the government seized his $52,000 Dodge Ram under the civil forfeiture law, which came into effect after he was charged. the first case to be heard by the B.C. Court of Appeal, three justices unanimously agreed the act aimed at taking the profit out of “unlawful activity” was “wide in scope and firm in its application.” this relates to law 12 because it shows and talks about how this case needed go all the way to the Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Mulgrew+civil+forfeiture+flawed/7630415/story.html#ixzz2FXu64imG
Yesterday , Dec.4, a B.C women stands to lose he home to her lawyer, who is moving to foreclose on her to pay his six-figure bill. where Fotsch got into the predicament after being sued by her former common-law husband, where she won the case and where the husband was to pay her costs. they had both divorced but where she needed to pay a load of different payments for the divorce. it also went through the Supreme court of Canada and Court Of Appeal. This article relates to Law 12 because it talks about the Supreme Court Of Canada and also the Court of Appeal which we learnt in Law 12, also it talks about divorce, which is a project i am currently researching on.
Video Link- http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/11/30/bc-legalbills.html
