Longer time to make complaint against police ‘reasonable’: N.S. attorney general
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Chender says Low’s case has highlighted the urgency of legal change. ‘We think it’s a pretty simple legislative gap and one that needs to be fixed,’ she said.
The NDP bill includes the so-called ‘principle of discoverability’ in a statue of limitations, which means the time limit runs from the time when a person understands their case was mishandled by police.
Chender said that would contrast with the existing regulation, which begins the from the date of alleged misconduct of police, whether or not the person involved understood misconduct had occurred.
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