(Quebec Court of King’s Bench) The court upheld the admission as evidence in a criminal case of documents taken by a witness from the Russian Embassy which evidenced a plot, to which Russian officials were party, against the Canadian State. The law recognised the general inviolability of mission documents, but the general principle was subject to an exception in the case of documents which put the safety of the state to which the mission was accredited in peril. In that event, if seized by the Canadian State, they lost ‘the privilege of immunity’.
Judges:
Bissonnette J
Citations:
[1947] 3 DLR 618
Commonwealth, Evidence
Updated: 04 May 2022; Ref: scu.510852