Civil Damages Flowing from Charter Violations

Lamka v Waterloo Regional Police Services Board, 2012 CanLII 98291 (ON SCSM)

72. No authority was presented which helpfully addresses this issue, and I am aware of none. What I have is Ward, supra, dealing with the general analysis applicable to claims for civil damages flowing from alleged Charter violations. And in that case the court states at para. 64 that “Strip searches are inherently humiliating and degrading regardless of the manner in which they are carried out and thus constitute significant injury to an individuals’s intangible interests” [citation omitted].