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Section 24(1) Charter Remedies: The Return of Unlawfully Seized Documents in Regulatory Investigations (Part 2 of 10)

September 25, 2026

Section 24(1) Charter Remedies: The Return of Unlawfully Seized Documents in Regulatory Investigations (Part 2 of 10)

Opening Question

When an appellate court strikes down a regulatory investigative summons as an unconstitutional seizure under Section 8 of the Charter, does Section 24(1) mandate the automatic return and destruction of the seized documents, or must the court conduct a contextual balancing test to prevent the premature destruction of legitimate administrative probes?

Direct Answer Paragraph

The unconstitutional seizure of corporate records affords absolutely no automatic right to immediate evidentiary destruction. Relying upon Herbert Broom’s equitable maxim fiat justitia ruat caelum (let justice be done though the heavens fall, tempered by contextual proportionality), superior courts dictate that Section 24(1) remedies require principled balancing, rendering reflex return orders absolute procedural anomalies.

Overview

Within the intricate theatre of Canadian constitutional litigation, establishing a breach of a Charter right is merely the opening salvo. The ultimate battleground lies in the remedy. When a corporation successfully proves that a state regulatory body overreached—such as issuing a sweeping, overbroad summons that violates the Section 8 protection against unreasonable seizure—the focus immediately pivots to Section 24(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Section 24(1) empowers a court of competent jurisdiction to grant “such remedy as the court considers appropriate and just in the circumstances.”

In the monumental Supreme Court of Canada appeal Ontario Securities Commission v. Binance Holdings Limited (SCC File No. 42156), the remedial doctrine is under fierce scrutiny. After the Court of Appeal for Ontario (ONCA) determined that the OSC’s demand for “all communications” constituted an unconstitutionally overbroad fishing expedition, the ONCA took a drastic procedural step: acting on its own initiative, with sparse analysis, the Court ordered the immediate return of the tens of thousands of documents Binance had already handed over to the OSC.

Before the Supreme Court, the OSC vehemently attacks this “Return Order,” arguing that the ONCA treated the return of seized documents as an automatic, knee-jerk consequence of a Section 8 breach, fundamentally violating the established jurisprudence on Charter remedies.

The legal architecture governing Section 24(1) remedies—anchored by the Supreme Court of Canada in Vancouver (City) v. Ward and the Quebec Court of Appeal in BT Céramiques inc. c. Agence du revenu du Québec—dictates that remedies are never automatic. Fashioning a remedy requires a delicate, fact-driven balancing exercise (“with a scalpel, not an axe,” per Justice L’Heureux-Dubé in R. v. O’Connor).

Superior courts must weigh:

The Nature of the Right and Intrusiveness: Are these highly sensitive personal diaries, or low-privacy corporate business records?
Countervailing Public Interests: Will ordering the return of the documents paralyze a critical, ongoing public interest investigation into multi-billion-dollar capital markets fraud?
Alternative Recourses (Exhaustion Doctrine): Should the admissibility of the documents be determined later, by the specialized administrative tribunal (e.g., the Capital Markets Tribunal) if and when actual enforcement proceedings are commenced?

The OSC argues that by ordering the immediate return of the documents without hearing submissions from the parties on the remedy, the ONCA denied procedural fairness. More profoundly, it created a perverse incentive: allowing a well-resourced corporate target to use a minor constitutional overbreadth in a summons to entirely derail and wipe out a legitimate regulatory investigation. The Supreme Court’s ruling on this issue will definitively instruct Canadian lower courts on whether unlawfully obtained evidence in the regulatory sphere must be instantly purged, or whether the state can retain the fruits of an overbroad search in the interest of public protection.

Legal Domain/Area Identification

Constitutional Law (Section 24(1) Remedies, Section 8 Unreasonable Seizure), Administrative Law (Regulatory Investigations, Doctrine of Exhaustion, and Premature Judicial Review), Civil Procedure (Appellate Remedial Discretion and Procedural Fairness), Securities Law, and the Doctrine of Nullity.

The Section 24(1) Remedial Balancing Matrix

Appellate courts evaluate the appropriate remedy for an unconstitutional regulatory seizure through an objective, multi-factor balancing framework:

                  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                  │       SECTION 24(1) CHARTER REMEDY INQUIRY (WARD)       │
                  │             "Is the Return of Documents Justified?"     │
                  └────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                               │
                                               ▼
                  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                  │    STEP 1: ESTABLISH THE CONSTITUTIONAL BREACH          │
                  │   • Summons declared overbroad under Section 8          │
                  │   • Unreasonable seizure of corporate records proven    │
                  └────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                               │
                                               ▼
                  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                  │    STEP 2: THE CONTEXTUAL BALANCING CRUCIBLE            │
                  │   (Weighing Individual Rights vs. Societal Interests)   │
                  └────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                               │
           ┌───────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┐
           ▼                                                                       ▼
 [ FACTORS FAVORING IMMEDIATE RETURN ]                                   [ FACTORS FAVORING STATE RETENTION ]
 • Egregious, bad-faith state misconduct                                 • Good-faith regulatory error (minor overbreadth)
 • Highly sensitive personal/medical data                                • Low-privacy corporate business records
 • Severe prejudice to the applicant                                     • Vital public interest in ongoing investigation
 • No alternative tribunal available                                     • Specialized tribunal can assess admissibility later
           │                                                                       │
           ▼                                                                       ▼
 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐                             ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │   AUTOMATIC RETURN ORDER (ONCA MODEL)   │                             │    PRINCIPLED DISCRETION (BT CÉRAMIQUES)│
 │ • Treated as automatic consequence      │                             │ • Return refused to protect public inter│
 │ • Imposed without party submissions     │                             │ • OSC retains documents to seek valid   │
 │ • Halts investigation in its tracks     │                             │   summons or proceed to tribunal        │
 └────────────────────┬────────────────────┘                             └────────────────────┬────────────────────┘
                      │                                                                       │
                      ▼                                                                       ▼
 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐                             ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │   SUPREME COURT OF CANADA CHALLENGE     │                             │       LAWFUL REGULATORY CONTINUATION    │
 │ • OSC alleges procedural fairness breach│                             │ • Respects separation of powers         │
 │ • Claims remedy is a blunt "axe"        │                             │ • Upholds doctrine of exhaustion        │
 │ • Seeks to vacate the Return Order      │                             │ • Prevents corporate evasion of law     │
 └─────────────────────────────────────────┘                             └─────────────────────────────────────────┘

The Complete 10-Part OSC v. Binance Series Index

This exhaustive ten-part treatise deconstructs the monumental Supreme Court of Canada battle in OSC v. Binance, examining regulatory powers, crypto-asset enforcement, and Charter remedies:

Part 1 of 10: Regulatory Summonses and Section 8: The Inquiry Relevance Threshold in OSC v. Binance
Part 2 of 10 (Current): Section 24(1) Charter Remedies: The Return of Unlawfully Seized Documents in Regulatory Investigations
Part 3 of 10: Intervener Influence at the SCC: The Criminal Lawyers’ Association and the Jarvis Penal Shift
Part 4 of 10: (Forthcoming) The Asymmetry of Information Doctrine: Why White-Collar Regulators Are Granted Exploratory Latitude
Part 5 of 10: (Forthcoming) Constitutional Limits on Borderless Finance: Regulating Offshore Crypto-Asset Trading Platforms
Part 6 of 10: (Forthcoming) The Exhaustion Doctrine in Administrative Law: Premature Judicial Reviews and the Capital Markets Tribunal
Part 7 of 10: (Forthcoming) Privacy in the Corporate Veil: Do Corporations Possess Section 8 Rights Over Business Communications?
Part 8 of 10: (Forthcoming) Corporate Sabotage and Evasion: Vishing, Signal Auto-Delete, and Obstructing Regulatory Probes
Part 9 of 10: (Forthcoming) Striking Contested Factums at the SCC: Rule 56(a) and the Admissibility of Foreign Regulatory Support Letters
Part 10 of 10: (Forthcoming) The Future of Part VI Investigations: Predictive Compliance, Cross-Border Summonses, and Market Integrity

Key Requirements / Elements to Adjudicate Section 24(1) Regulatory Remedies

To properly fashion a remedy under Section 24(1) of the Charter—or to successfully challenge an appellate court’s remedial order as an error in principle—counsel must establish the following legal criteria:

The Rejection of Automatic Relief: Counsel must demonstrate that Section 24(1) is highly discretionary and context-dependent. The return of property is an ancillary relief, not an absolute, automatic mandate flowing from a Section 8 breach (BT Céramiques).
The Procedural Fairness Mandate: An appellate court commits a reviewable error of law if it imposes a sweeping Charter remedy (like returning tens of thousands of seized documents) sua sponte (on its own initiative) without providing the parties adequate notice and a formal opportunity to brief the court on the remedial consequences.
The Balancing of Public Interest (Good Governance): Under Vancouver (City) v. Ward, the proposed remedy must avoid imposing substantial, unjustified hardships on the government and must avoid negatively impacting good governance. Stripping a securities regulator of its entire investigative file over a wording defect harms the public’s interest in capital markets integrity.
The Doctrine of Exhaustion / Prematurity: The state can argue that ordering the return of documents during an active investigation is premature. If the regulator eventually brings formal charges, the specialized administrative tribunal (e.g., the Capital Markets Tribunal) is a “court of competent jurisdiction” empowered to determine the ultimate admissibility of the evidence. Superior courts should refrain from short-circuiting that process.
The “Scalpel, Not an Axe” Principle: The remedy must be appropriately tailored to the specific harm. If a summons was 10% overbroad, ordering the return of 100% of the documents acts as a blunt axe. The court should permit the state to retain the documents while they seek a properly tailored, Charter-compliant replacement summons (Dobney Foundry Ltd.).

Examples / Application

A. The Tax Audit Exigency (The BT Céramiques Paradigm)

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) uses administrative audit powers to seize thousands of documents from a commercial tile manufacturer. A superior court rules that the CRA crossed the line into a penal investigation without obtaining a proper criminal search warrant, violating Section 8. The manufacturer demands the immediate return of all seized financial ledgers under Section 24(1).

Applying the Quebec Court of Appeal’s logic in BT Céramiques inc. c. Agence du revenu du Québec, the court refuses to return the documents. The judge rules that while the seizure was highly reprehensible, there is a compelling public interest in prosecuting massive tax fraud. The court permits the CRA to retain the documents long enough to apply for a valid, constitutionally compliant criminal search warrant, ensuring that vital evidence of corporate malfeasance is not destroyed the moment it is handed back to the wrongdoer.

B. The Anti-Trust Fishing Expedition and Mandatory Return

The Competition Bureau issues a massive, un-targeted production order demanding all internal communications of a telecommunications giant to see if they are engaging in price-fixing. The order has zero factual foundation. The Federal Court quashes the order under Section 8. The Bureau asks to keep the 50,000 emails already produced to “find a better justification.”

The court orders the immediate, permanent return and destruction of the emails. Because the state’s conduct was an egregious, bad-faith fishing expedition entirely divorced from any lawful investigative foundation, allowing the state to retain the fruits of the poisoned tree would severely prejudice the corporation and bring the administration of justice into disrepute. The return order is the only appropriate Section 24(1) remedy to vindicate the right.

C. The Premature Civil Rights Injunction

A professional regulatory college seizes a physician’s clinic laptops during an unannounced inspection. The physician immediately files an application in superior court seeking the return of the laptops, arguing the seizure was overbroad. The College argues the application is premature, as the discipline committee has not yet held a hearing.

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismisses the physician’s application. Applying the doctrine of exhaustion (C.B. Powell Limited), the court rules that absent exceptional circumstances, litigants must exhaust the administrative process first. The discipline committee of the College is fully empowered to hear the Section 8 Charter argument and exclude the evidence if necessary. The superior court will not fragment the regulatory process by issuing premature return orders.

Regulatory Notes / Case Law

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Section 24(1): The fundamental remedial provision empowering courts of competent jurisdiction to grant such remedy as is appropriate and just in the circumstances for a Charter breach.
Vancouver (City) v. Ward, 2010 SCC 27: The paramount Supreme Court of Canada authority on Section 24(1) remedies (specifically Charter damages), establishing the strict balancing test that requires courts to weigh the vindication of rights against the impact on good governance.
BT Céramiques inc. c. Agence du revenu du Québec, 2024 QCCA 1188: A leading modern appellate decision establishing that the return of unlawfully seized documents is not an automatic remedy; courts retain equitable discretion to allow the state to retain documents to protect compelling public interests.
R. v. O’Connor, [1995] 4 S.C.R. 411: Emphasizing the principle (per L’Heureux-Dubé J.) that Charter remedies must be fashioned with a “scalpel, not an axe,” ensuring the remedy is perfectly proportional to the breach.
C.B. Powell Limited v. Canada (Border Services Agency), 2010 FCA 61: The definitive authority on the doctrine of exhaustion in Canadian administrative law, dictating that parties cannot bypass administrative tribunals by seeking premature judicial review in superior courts.
Dobney Foundry Ltd. v. Canada (Attorney General) (1985), 19 C.C.C. (3d) 465 (B.C.C.A.): Recognizing the pragmatic remedial option of allowing the Crown to temporarily retain unlawfully seized documents to provide an opportunity to secure a valid, constitutionally sound warrant.

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Internal Links (Referrals to Other Blogs, Pages, Posts)

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Regulatory Summonses and Section 8: The Inquiry Relevance Threshold in OSC v. Binance (Part 1 of 10)
Intervener Influence at the SCC: The Criminal Lawyers’ Association and the Jarvis Penal Shift (Part 3 of 10)
The Judicial Annihilation of Contaminated Briefs: Striking Pleadings In Limine and Abuse of Process under Toronto v. CUPE (Part 20 of 20)
The Doctrine of Abuse of Process: Litigating Systemic Delays and Investigative Overreach in Public Inquiries (Part 1 of 3)
Coram Non Judice: The Absolute Jurisdictional Nullity of State Overreach

External Authoritative Links

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Supreme Court of Canada – Docket 42156 (OSC v. Binance)
Department of Justice Canada – Charterpedia (Section 24(1) Remedies)
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) – Section 24(1) Remedy Decisions
Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) – Capital Markets Tribunal Rules of Procedure

FAQ Section

What is a Section 24(1) Charter remedy? Section 24(1) of the Charter is the “toolbox” provision for judges. If your constitutional rights are violated by the government, this section allows a judge to craft any remedy they believe is “appropriate and just.” This can include ordering the government to return seized property, striking down an illegal order, issuing an injunction, or awarding financial damages.

If police or regulators search my business illegally, do I automatically get my documents back? No. While it seems logical that illegal searches should result in getting your property back, Canadian courts do not treat this as an automatic guarantee. Under cases like BT Céramiques, judges must balance your privacy rights against the public’s interest in investigating serious crimes or massive financial fraud. The judge might allow the state to keep the documents long enough to get a legal warrant.

Why is the OSC complaining about the Court of Appeal ordering the documents returned? In OSC v. Binance, the Court of Appeal struck down the OSC’s summons and immediately ordered the OSC to return all of Binance’s internal emails. The OSC is arguing to the Supreme Court that the Court of Appeal made this drastic order on its own, without letting the lawyers argue about whether it was the right remedy. The OSC claims this blunt “axe” approach harms their ability to regulate the capital markets.

What is the “Doctrine of Exhaustion” in administrative law? The doctrine of exhaustion is a rule that stops people from running to a superior court judge in the middle of a government investigation. It states that if a specialized administrative tribunal (like a Securities Commission, Labour Board, or Human Rights Tribunal) has the legal power to hear your Charter complaint, you must finish the tribunal’s process first before asking a regular court to intervene.

Can a regulator just issue a new summons if the first one is struck down? Yes. In its decision, the Court of Appeal in OSC v. Binance explicitly stated that ordering the return of the documents was “without prejudice” to the OSC’s ability to issue a new, narrower, Charter-compliant summons. The OSC is free to re-draft the demand to ensure it is strictly tailored to the specific events they are investigating.

Law Cap Value Proposition

Law Cap Inc. (part of the “Search & Seizure Law Group Of Companies”) is a specialized legal‑forensics and digital analysis platform dedicated to sophisticated litigation strategy, constitutional oversight, and advanced asset tracking. Led by an editor with cross‑disciplinary expertise in law, securities, and behavioral psychology, Law Cap Inc. conducts high‑level blockchain forensics (including EVM‑network parsing), complex fraud analysis, metadata manipulation verification, and forensic document examination. The platform provides unrepresented litigants, counsel, and organizations with advanced, on a pro bono publico basis, analytical frameworks for navigating institutional overreach, administrative complexity, and regulatory terrain.

Law Cap exposes the strategic vulnerabilities of the administrative state. When federal tribunals attempt to weaponize silence, misdirection, and procedural delay to shield their actions from judicial review, LawCap provides the precise tactical blueprints to break the blockade. We translate complex prerogative remedies like structural mandamus, the prohibition against bootstrapping, and the doctrine of spoliation into actionable, high-impact legal strategy. By insisting on absolute algorithmic and statutory compliance. By insisting on absolute algorithmic and statutory compliance with the Federal Courts Rules, LawCap ensures that the foundational digital evidence—the raw truth of state action—is relentlessly extracted from the shadows and placed under the uncompromising scrutiny of the courts.

About the Founder, Owner, Executive Chair and CEO

Mr. Kevin A. McLean (B.A., J.D., CIM) (he/him) established Law Cap Inc. (“LawCap”) as a global platform for legal strategy, constitutional advocacy, and digital forensics. Operating within Ontario, Mr. McLean utilizes his background as a former barrister and solicitor in British Columbia, alongside credentials as a Chartered Investment Manager with the world famous and accredited Canadian Securities Institute located in Toronto, Ontario (Wellington West Avenue) (having passed in the span of eight months (eight multi-hour exams and ten if including the “mutual funds course” (see: infra): (i) the Canadian Securities Course: (ii) Wealth Management Essentials (with tax compendium modules); (iii) Investment Management Techniques; and (iv) Portfolio Management Techniques (along with although not required for the designation, the (v) the mutual funds course), to apply a broad and deep based analytical approach to Charter rights litigation and administrative accountability.

His background (the grind and lucky as they come)

Raised between the oceanfront calm of Spanish Banks in Vancouver and the warmth of Barbados, Mr. McLean grew up with a global perspective shaped by contrast — privilege without entitlement, exposure without complacency. The only father he knew, Mr. John Nugent (BA, JD, MBA, CFA Level I), legally adopted him at age nine (although ‘introduced’ at age three), marking Mr. McLean’s first direct encounter with litigation involving an absentee biological parent (father). He remains grateful to Mr. Jim Schuman, QC (as he then was), whose guidance during that process left a lasting impression on him.

Learning from the best through “osmosis” like a sponge in the Caribbean Sea

Living in Barbados part of each year throughout the 1980s and 1990s — never fully realizing how fortunate he was — Mr. McLean was introduced early to concepts such as trusts, tax residency requirements, capital gains, seed capital, convertible debentures, preferred shares, and other foundational elements of financial architecture. As his father often reminded him, “Education gets the foot in the door, but you learn and grow by doing — and you are either getting better or getting worse.”

Before his foray into junior mining on the West Coast — a sector many affectionately referred to as the “Wild West” — — Mr. Nugent served as President of Gardiner Group Stock Inc., where he managed more than 4,000 stock brokers, investment advisors, money managers, and analysts prior to the firm’s acquisition by TD Bank (a detail Mr. McLean now finds somewhat ironic). It was during this period that Mr. Nugent met Mr. McLean’s mother, then a stock broker and now a highly accomplished, world‑renowned professor and philanthropist with a Ph.D. The greatest compliment Mr. McLean has ever received came from Mr. Nugent himself, who once told him: “The best talker, salesman, and charismatic person I have ever seen. If he gets some substance, it will be a dangerous package in the real world.” Therein, the seeds of a dangerous truth-telling was born. Refinement and maturity were late blooming qualities – admittedly so.

Educational and Athletic Blessings: the infrastructure to form the public interest litigator

Mr. McLean was privileged and blessed to have attended the prestigious St. George’s School in Vancouver for both elementary and high school. When he realized that his then‑dream of representing Canada in a singular sport was becoming a reality, he transitioned to the Sports and Arts Program at Magee Secondary School, where he could begin classes an hour early and avoid elective and physical‑education requirements. This structure allowed him to train at an elite level, ultimately reaching number two in Canada in the U18 division and competing globally as a member of the Canadian National Tennis Team. He graduated from Magee Secondary School as the top student, earning the Principal’s List distinction with a 4.0 GPA in all courses.

Mr. Kevin A. McLean (BA, JD, CIM) carries on the Spanish Banks (Vancouver) running excellence tradition into the field of law nationwide (Canadian Bar Association 5 KM race)

While running a 15‑minute 5K at age 30 in the Canadian Bar Association race was an immense athletic accomplishment, Mr. McLean cherishes it most because he felt he was protecting the turf where his father had given him the privilege of growing up. His second most cherished athletic memory was winning the five‑kilometre race for the entire high school in Grade 9.

His earliest remains hitting two free throws with one second left — down by one — in Grade 7 to win the Vancouver city championship for St. George’s against St. Patrick’s. His earliest remains hitting two free throws with one second left — down by one — in Grade 7 to win the Vancouver city championship for St. George’s against St. Patrick’s.

The “McLean Name”: from the Highlands of Scotland and ode to William Wallace

The McLean name is Scottish, carried forward from Mr. McLean’s grandfather, Mr. Angus Alexander McLean, P. Eng. — the source of Mr. McLean’s middle name. Angus was married to Mrs. Margaret McLean, once the top tennis player in Canada in the 1940s and an accomplished field‑hockey athlete. She tragically passed away from cancer before Mr. She tragically passed away from cancer before Mr. McLean could meet her, though he has always understood why sport came naturally to him — the long stride, the biomechanics, and the competitive instinct. Angus suffered from macular degeneration, leaving him fully blind at age 60, and later Parkinson’s disease. He passed away in 2002, but Mr. McLean visited him every summer in Salmon Arm (having been born in Smithers, B.C.), often accompanied by his paternal grandmother, Ms. McLean visited him every summer in Salmon Arm (having been born in Smithers, B.C.), often accompanied by his paternal grandmother, Ms. Helen Elizabeth Lane (née Allsop), a pilot well into her 80s who passed away in 2012 and remains his favourite woman of all time. Mr. McLean often reflects on his grandfather’s resilience, noting: “I never heard him complain once — and if we could all be so grateful to be alive.” Through an eccentric yet uniquely detailed family tree, Mr. McLean learned that the McLean surname traces back to the 1300s in Scotland alongside none other than Sir William Wallace (later sensationalized by Mel Gibson in Braveheart). It thus became unsurprising to him why he has always been so staunchly stubborn and assertive about one’s rights, no matter the circumstance.

The Most Unique of Skill Sets at age 43 (March 25, 1983) (a “True Aries”)

Intersections of Law and Cryptography

The professional trajectory of Mr. McLean is defined by the deconstruction of unauthorized surveillance networks and the exposure of systemic irregularities.

Forensic Capabilities: His forensic data skills have frequently addressed complex anomalies within administrative and appellate contexts.
Blockchain Analysis: Following a 2014 incident involving an unauthorized RAM dump, Mr. McLean acquired proficiency in hexadecimal language to parse a one-million-page compressed architectural record.
Cross-Chain Tracking: He successfully traced unauthorized data disclosures across the Ethereum blockchain in Switzerland and EVM-compatible networks, such as the Binance Smart Chain (BSC).
Judicial Evidence: These findings provided significant blockchain evidence before the Honourable Justice Bowden of the British Columbia Supreme Court (BCSC) in December 2015 which was withheld from the BCSC (see: McLean v. Law Society of British Columbia, 2015 BCSC 661; McLean v. Law Society of British Columbia, 2015 BCSC 1431; McLean v. Law Society of British Columbia, 2015 BCSC 1972; McLean v Law Society of British Columbia, 2017 BCSC 987; Law Society of British Columbia (Re), 2018 BCIPC 37 (author was the successful unnamed respondent therein); and McLean v. Attorney General of British Columbia, 2019 BCCA 133 [defeated the AGBC at the Court of Appeal, no leave to appeal by AGBC]; and by change of legislation in 2024, the author has become the first to ever defeat in any motion, hearing and in finality a professional and regulatory association or body at all and in the field of public interest litigation involving the breach of Charter rights of members and clients of members

Adversity and Resilience

After transitioning to e-commerce ventures in the health and wellness sector in 2015, Mr. McLean navigated and is navigating as a result of CAT impairments (physical in nature but with mind-body connection) significant extralegal challenges and physical trauma.

Physical Recovery: Following a severe vehicular incident on August 31, 2022, which resulted in devastating spinal injuries, he maintains a disciplined daily regimen involving specialized orthotics and minimalist biomechanics to manage his recovery.
Procedural Strategy: Despite physical hardship, Mr. McLean utilized an extensive command of procedural law during a multi-jurisdictional detention to secure his release by demanding adherence to Criminal Code protocols, specifically Form 2 and Form 7 requirements.

Litigation and Procedural Discovery

This commitment to legal redress led to the discovery of a notable event in Canadian legal history: the post-facto falsification of a six-page “Information Package” (footer CCO-2–000-1).

Case Comparison: While historical precedents such as R. v. Silva (Quebec 2019/2020) involved the unauthorized use of a judicial stamp, the wholesale falsification of an entire six-page package is considered unprecedented.
Ongoing Oversight: Further irregularities, nullities (jurisdictional in nature) discovered involving various levels of the judiciary remain subjects of scrutiny and formal complaint.

Outside Interests: Athletics and mental health (lifelong journeys – not destinations)

Mr. Kevin A. McLean (BA, JD, CIM) has always lived life at full speed — sometimes literally. He still holds the record for the fastest five‑kilometre time ever run by a lawyer in the Canadian Bar Association’s annual 5K race, clocking an extraordinary 15:05 in one of the years he won the event. Before entering law, Kevin competed on the Canadian National Tennis Team (U16 and U18), representing Canada at the world‑renowned Orange Bowl — the largest junior tennis tournament on the planet. Winning a round there placed him among the top 20 junior players globally in his age category.

His athletic career continued at The Ohio State University, where he played NCAA tennis on scholarship beginning in 2001. To this day, Kevin remains a proud Buckeye, a donor to the university, and a familiar (or intentionally hard‑to‑find) face on eight or so College Football Saturdays each year in Columbus, Ohio. He still enjoys the tradition of “Kegs and Eggs,” though for him it’s now just the eggs — Kevin is a long‑retired drinker who speaks openly and gratefully about the role evidence‑based treatment including medication for ADHD played in transforming his life. He recommends (but does not advise) anyone struggling with any such symptoms to seek professional help from a qualified psychiatrist.

Kevin is single, unmarried, and a non‑parent — not out of absence, but out of purpose. As he likes to say, he is “married to the game,” and he believes “the public deserves it.” His work, his advocacy, and his commitment to building accessible legal knowledge platforms reflect that ethos: disciplined, service‑oriented, and driven by a sense of responsibility larger than himself.

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Potential Lawsuits (generally and this specific article, post or blog): Waiver of Personal Service and Cautionary Admonition

Regarding any subjective apprehension of a nascent cause of action within the jurisdiction of Ontario grounded in defamation, or any alternative tortious liability implicating this digital publication platform (the “Publication Platform”), the aforementioned commercial enterprise, or the individual proprietor, Kevin Alexander McLean, B.A., J.D., C.I.M. (the “Proprietor”, “CEO”, “Owner”, “Editor”)—who formerly practiced as a barrister and solicitor in the jurisdiction of British Columbia and maintains the professional designation of Chartered Investment Manager—it is unequivocally mandated that such grievances be addressed pursuant to the rigorous strictures of Canadian tort jurisprudence.

Should litigation be commenced against the commercial enterprise or the proprietor pertaining to allegations of defamation, irrespective of the underlying judiciousness of the antecedent legal advisement, service of process shall be accepted exclusively via electronic transmission at the previously designated electronic mailing addresses, thereby effectuating a binding waiver of the requirement for effectuating personal service. Notwithstanding this procedural concession, an unequivocal reservation of rights is maintained in limine for the explicit purpose of seeking security for costs, pursuing the summarily striking of the pleadings via summary judgment—strictly distinguished from a summary trial—and applying for elevated cost awards on a substantial indemnity or full indemnity basis against the initiating party in either a personal or corporate capacity. Furthermore, overarching rights are expressly reserved to seek interlocutory and injunctive relief, alongside the commencement of counterclaims seeking substantive damages for multifarious tortious infractions, expressly including the tort of abuse of process, and concurrently seeking remedial measures against any retained legal representatives. The prerogative to freely publish commentary delineating the procedural evolution of any such litigation, constituting public acta, is similarly and irrevocably reserved.

Given that causes of action sounding in defamation must be adjudicated before a superior court possessing inherent jurisdiction—specifically, a tribunal constituted pursuant to section 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867 (the “Section 96 Court”)—any party initiating such proceedings irrevocably attorns generally to the jurisdiction of the Province of Ontario and to that specific judicial echelon at first instance. Judicial resources remain intrinsically finite; their utilization necessitates the expenditure of the public treasury across multiple governmental strata. This encompasses the executive branch, financed by the provincial government via the taxation of the citizenry; the judicial branch, remunerated by the federal government; and tertiary municipal expenditures whereby auxiliary judicial officers are perpetually contracted through municipal law enforcement agencies, functioning effectively as a government institution (the “Government Institution”), such as the Toronto Police Services Board.

While the fundamental right to articulate dissenting opinions is rigorously respected, and electronic correspondence remains welcomed for the exclusive purpose of identifying substantive inaccuracies necessitating amelioration, it is unambiguously declared that no financial indemnification shall be disbursed, as no valid cause of action in defamation or otherwise is recognized to subsist. Consequently, should the instigation of formal litigation remain the finalized trajectory, the requisite tariff of fees must be remitted in strict accordance with the attendant regulations promulgated under the Administration of Justice Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.4. Subsequently, discrete copies of the formally issued—as rigidly distinguished from merely filed—statement of claim (the “Statement Of Claim”) must be concurrently served upon all respective respondents, whereupon subsequent procedural mechanisms shall be accordingly activated. Any deviation from these prescribed procedural modalities, constituting a direct contravention of statutory mandates, the equitable doctrines of fairness, or the strictures delineated within the Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194 (the “Procedural Rules”), shall categorically not be countenanced as a remediable irregularity. Rather, such defective origination or procedural non-compliance shall be definitively construed as an absolute nullity, functioning ultra vires the initiating party’s jurisprudential authority, and effectuating a compulsory reversion to the status quo ante.

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