Olivia Carville reports:
The first person ever prosecuted under Ontario’s health privacy law for allegedly prying into almost 6,000 patient records no longer faces charges because of the “curious” way the Crown handled the case, a court has ruled.
Against a backdrop of growing calls for more prosecutions under this law, the potentially precedent-setting case was quietly dropped because of a 16-month delay “entirely attributable” to Crown prosecutors, according to the court ruling.
Read more on The Hamilton Spectator.