Overview
Valent Legal represents mentally ill patients of the East Coast Forensic Hospital in relation to an alleged unlawful and unconstitutional strip search which occurred hospital-wide on October 16, 2012. On that date, every patient of the hospital was round up and then systematically subjected to a strip search without any regard for their individual circumstances.
The class action alleges that the decision to subject all hospital patients to such a mass strip search to be a breach of these patients’ right not to be subjected to unreasonable search by the state, as guaranteed by section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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