The Crown is seeking leave to appeal the Dec. 20 ruling by Justice Denise Boudreau, in a Nova Scotia Supreme Court case that has set off alarm bells among criminal-law experts who fear the decision may lead to more quashed prosecutions. Boudreau stayed multiple fraud allegations against businessmen Douglas Rudolph and Peter Mill on the basis that two RCMP officers took a five-hour statement from disbarred lawyer Mark David. Pink says the Mill and Rudolph case illustrates the lack of similar methods for cases where police need to interview lawyers. “Does this decision invite a possibility where clients’ can use their lawyer as a front, dump information and immunize themselves from criminal prosecution? The prosecution service says if they’re successful in appeal court, they’ll seek a new trial in the case.

Source: National Post January 19, 2018 17:37 UTC