This week on Driving Law, Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko examine two significant legal developments that could reshape impaired driving law across Canada.
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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:
Impaired Driving Update – BC Edition: Volume 31 Read More »
Imagine you are driving an older truck through busy streets when the pungent, unmistakable scent of gasoline fills the cabin. A fellow driver honks and points frantically at your vehicle. You look out the window to see a steady trail of fuel flowing behind the truck. In that split second, you realize you are driving a potential fireball. You do the only sensible thing: you pull over immediately to the nearest curb to assess the damage and call for help.
Most would call this a responsible emergency response. The City of Saskatoon, however, called it a parking violation.
His Majesty the King v. Reilly Brazeau 2026 SKKB 1 is a fascinating legal study in how common sense and longstanding legal principles can override the rigid application of municipal bylaws. It serves as an important precedent for anyone looking to dispute a parking ticket issued during an emergency.
…The Day a Parking Spot Became a Safe Haven Read More »
This week on Driving Law, Kyla Lee is joined by Montana criminal defence lawyer Matt Dodd for a discussion about cross-examination, trial advocacy, and storytelling in court.
Matt discusses his criminal defence and DUI practice in Montana, including his work on serious criminal cases and civil litigation. He and Kyla then explore what makes cross-examination effective, emphasizing the importance of preparation, knowing the goal for each witness, and using cross-examination to tell the client’s story.
…Episode 458: Cross-Examination, Courtroom Storytelling, & the Art of Being Nice to CopsRead More »
Episode 458: Cross-Examination, Courtroom Storytelling, & the Art of Being Nice to Cops Read More »
Legal Aid BC exists to ensure that people who can’t afford a lawyer still have access to justice. It’s a mission rooted in fairness. But a demographic data report released in March 2026 and obtained through a freedom of information request by Vancouver lawyer Kyla Lee raises a pointed question: is the system that’s supposed to deliver fairness actually delivering it equally to the lawyers who work within it?
The short answer, based on the data, is no.
…In this episode, Kyla Lee from Acumen Law Corporation examines a case arising from the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision striking down consecutive periods of parole ineligibility for multiple murder convictions. Once those sentences were declared unconstitutional, individuals already serving them began seeking remedies. The legal question became not whether the sentences were unconstitutional, but how courts should efficiently correct them. Some courts required offenders to bring new constitutional applications and litigate the issue at the trial level, while others pointed to simpler processes that had previously been used when sentencing laws were found unconstitutional.
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A recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision has left one of the most debated impaired driving issues in Canada unresolved. While R. v. Raffia raised important questions about reasonable excuse and refusal prosecutions, the Court ultimately declined to address the issue that many lawyers were watching most closely.
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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:
Impaired Driving Update – BC Edition: Volume 29 Read More »
People put an enormous amount of trust in their lawyer. They hand over their money, their secrets, and quite often the most frightening problem of their entire life. They assume that the person on the other side of the desk actually went to law school, actually passed the bar, and actually has a licence in good standing. Most of the time that assumption is correct. Every so often it is wrong.
This week I went looking for the people who pretended. I’m not so much interested in lawyers who made mistakes or lawyers who got suspended for the usual reasons. I mean people who were never entitled to practise at all, or who lost the right years ago and simply kept going. The stories come from three different places and they share one common thread. Somebody decided that a law degree, a bar exam, and a licence were optional, and a lot of trusting people paid the price. One of them even built a courtroom!
…Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 403 Read More »
If you ever find yourself in the back of a police cruiser, a recent court case called R. v. Belliard highlights a mistake the police made that could happen to anyone.
Imagine you are driving through a roadblock and the officer asks you to blow into a roadside screening device. You blow a “FAIL,” and suddenly you are under arrest and being taken to the station for more testing. This is exactly what happened to Mr. Belliard, but the way the police handled his right to a lawyer ended up being a significant violation of his constitutional rights.
So what are your rights when it comes to accessing a lawyer from police custody?
…What Happens When Police Call Your Lawyer For YouRead More »
What Happens When Police Call Your Lawyer For You Read More »
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