Search Warrants

Description: Join us for a look at Crown and Defence perspectives on the application of, challenges to, and litigation of, search warrants in the modern Criminal Law context.

Presenters:
Eric Neufeld, K.C. will present “Will it Survive?” – an assessment of search warrants and information to obtain filings.
Daniel Song, K.C. – Defence Counsel Perspective and discussion.

Bios:
Eric Neufeld was admitted to the Law Society of Saskatchewan in 1975 and has practiced in the province ever since. After spending the better part of ten years in private practice, primarily in
civil and criminal litigation, he joined the Public Prosecutions Division of Saskatchewan Justice in 1985.

He served as a Crown prosecutor and later, as a Senior Crown, was director of economic crime prosecutions in Southern Saskatchewan until 1998. In 1999, after completing a secondment to the Federal Prosecution Service as counsel to the newly formed Integrated Proceeds of Crime Unit, Eric returned to Saskatchewan Justice as Director of Special Projects at the Head Office of Public Prosecutions as well as doing appellate work.

In 2009 he was seconded to the RCMP Proceeds of Crime Branch as subject matter expert in the development and delivery of both online and classroom training for financial crime investigators. In December of 2011 he retired from the Federal public service and returned to private law practice with the Findlay Law Office in Regina. The firm is the appointed standing agent of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada for the Swift Current, and Estevan prosecution areas and Eric is a member of its prosecution team handling Federal prosecutions for those areas.

Eric holds Bachelor of Laws (1974) and Bachelor of Arts (1971) degrees from the University of Saskatchewan. He received his King’s Counsel designation in 1996.

Daniel Song practices as counsel to Pringle Law. He manages the Vancouver office and practices criminal law in Alberta and British Columbia. He obtained his law degree from the University of British Columbia in 2006.

Daniel has broad trial experience defending clients faced with serious and complex charges. He also has extensive experience as criminal appellate counsel, having represented clients at the Supreme Court of Canada in more than twenty cases.

Daniel is an adjunct professor at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law teaching “Legal Rights Under the Charter.” He is an advocacy advisor for the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, a board director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, a member of the Legal Aid of Alberta Appeals Committee, and a supervising lawyer for the UBC Innocence Project. Daniel was appointed King’s Counsel in 2022

This CPD has been approved for 3 hours and 15 minutes by the Law Society of British Columbia and may be applied towards the mandatory 12 hour Continuing Professional Development requirement in both BC and Yukon.

Click here for the Powerpoint Presentation 2024 Yukon Law Society – Search Warrants.

Click here for the Powerpoint Presentation WILL IT SURVIVE – Assessing a Warrant.