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Aboriginal Rights and Defences - Availability of Remedy of Declaratory Judgement stating First Nations persons were to be prosecuted without dispensation for violations of Aboriginal Communal Fishing Regulations - Dispensation of outside charges against other persons does not render prosecution of participatns in protest fishery and abuse of process. - Judicial Review/Crown Liability - Misc. - Offences

R v. Armstrong, 2012 BCCA 242

In Aboriginal Rights/Defences, Fish Cases, Judicial Review/Crown Liability, Miscellaneous, Offences on August 23, 2012 (Updated August 23, 2012)

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