so, prosecutors are essentially given free reign to say whatever they want about the pigs, then. i'm no fan of the institution, clearly. but, they need to have a right of defense against corrupt prosecutors (and that happens.) that want to defame their character in the course of a prosecution, and that was just taken away from them in order to uphold some tory bullshit about the "honour of the crown".
the previous court was all about civil liberties, and they would have never taken a position like this.
when this is over, this is going to be the legacy of justin trudeau - by allowing the opposition to shape the bench, he shifted it hard to the right in a way that stephen harper only dreamed of being able to do; he succeeded in changing the legal culture in the way that the right wanted it changed, where harper failed.