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Aboriginal Rightrs and Defences - Constitutionally protected Narwhal fishery; Demand by fisheries offices to attend at fisheries office with illegally harvested Narwhal tusk - No credibly based suspicion sufficient to trigger statutory power of inspection - Offences - s. 7 invoked to exclude inculpatory admissions- - Search and seizure

R v. Kooktook, 2004 NUCJ 7

In Aboriginal Rights/Defences, Fish Cases, Offences, Search and Seizure on July 17, 2012 (Updated July 17, 2012)

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