December 2025

Impaired Driving Update – BC Edition: Volume 4

Welcome to British Columbia’s only weekly DUI law update newsletter. This newsletter contains the most cutting-edge information, the newest case law, and helpful practice tips for DUI defence in BC.

Authored by Kyla Lee, BC’s Impaired Driving Update is released weekly on Thursdays.

What’s inside:

  • Immediate Roadside Prohibition Review Tips
  • IRP Review Decision updates and successes
  • DUI Decision of the Week: a helpful DUI case precedent
  • Kyla’s Insight
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CBC News: MLAs debate proposed law named after 12-year-old boy killed by vehicle

For Zahra Rasul and Josh Jankovics, a proposal to crack down on reckless drivers called Xavier’s Law isn’t just about their son.

“We’re just trying to … even if it’s one more person in the future, to help save someone’s life,” Jankovics said.

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Kyla Lee on Chek News: MLAs, criminal lawyer express concern with ‘Xavier’s Law’

The family of the young boy killed while rollerblading outside his home on a rural road in the Cowichan Valley Aug 25, was at the legislature Monday to hear the second reading of a bill created in his name.

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Did the SCC Eliminate Impaired Driving Defence Technicalities?

Close-up of a police officer conducting a breathalyzer test on a driver to check for blood alcohol levels.

On November 14, 2025, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) settled a nationwide debate regarding breath alcohol testing evidence. In its decision, R. v. Rousselle, 2025 SCC 35, a companion case to R. v. Larocque, 2025 SCC 36, the Court confirmed that the Crown is not required to call an analyst to testify or file documents from the analyst in every impaired driving case to prove the reliability of the alcohol standard used in breath testing.

The central question was one of evidence: could the Crown rely solely on the certificate of the qualified technician, a police officer operating the approved instrument, to prove a precondition that the alcohol standard used was certified by an analyst?. The SCC answered a resounding yes.

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Language Rights: Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t!

Welcome to “Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t!”

In this episode, Kyla Lee from Acumen Law Corporation examines a case involving language rights in criminal proceedings. The accused, Altamond Jr. Little, elected to have his trial in French. Due to complications with counsel and available resources, an interpreter was used—but the interpretation during trial was flawed. Although Mr. Little never raised the issue at trial and his lawyer did not object, he later argued on appeal that the imperfect interpretation led to an unfair trial. The Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear the case, missing an opportunity to clarify the standard for language rights in criminal trials.

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