Welcome to Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t! This week, lawyer Kyla Lee discusses professional secrecy.
Acumen Law Corporation lawyer Kyla Lee gives her take on a made-in-Canada court case each week and discusses why these cases should have been heard by Canada’s highest court: the Supreme Court of Canada.
Jean-Francois Labrie argued that certain information that he was being compelled to provide in a case would eliminate his right to religious secrecy because he had told that information in confidence to his religious person. He argued that religious secrecy should apply and that his information should not be disclosed or disclosable.
The courts disagreed and he sought leave to the Supreme Court of Canada to try to argue that he should have the right to religious secrecy.
The SCC denied leave.
This case raises very important issues because religious secrecy is very important to people who have the right to freedom of religious expression in this country and who have the right to practice their faith. But on the other hand, police have the right to obtain information and have cases litigated on their merits, so some type of balance has to occur here.
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