Sexual assault survivor files lawsuit against Halifax police and RCMP
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The case has caught the attention of Dartmouth MLA Claudia Chender who submitted a bill to change the regulations.
Although the bill was never passed, Chender says she was told by the Nova Scotia’s justice minister that the change in their bill was moving forward, and the time limit for bringing complaints against police would be changing from six months to one year.
But Chender says it still doesn’t go far enough because it overlooks their request of ‘principle of discoverability.’
‘It’s recognized in legal circles that a time limit like that should run from when the harm was discovered,’ said Chender. ‘So in Miss Low’s case she didn’t realize her case was being mishandled until months and months and months after she reported it, so it’s logical then that if she wants to lodge a complaint the time period should run from when she knew, not when it happened.’”