Judicial Review and Statutory Appeal – Injunctions – The Lawyer’s Daily

March 31, 2021

Motions by the applicants for an interlocutory injunction staying the operation of certain Regulations and the effect of a related Amnesty Order. On May 1, 2020, the Governor in Council, via Order in Council, promulgated the Regulations Amending the Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and Other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited, Restricted or Non-Restricted (Regulations). The effect of the Regulations was to add a list of previously non-restricted or restricted firearms to the definitions of “prohibited device,” “prohibited firearm,” or “restricted firearm” as found in ss. 84(1) and 117.15(1) of the Criminal Code. The court was seized with six applications for judicial review challenging the Order in Council on several grounds. It was in the context of three of those applications for judicial review that the applicants brought the motions for an interlocutory injunction.

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