The appellant, Matthew Paik, initiated private prosecutions against six police officers, alleging they illegally preserved surveillance video.
The Crown intervened to withdraw these charges, asserting a lack of reasonable and probable grounds for prosecution.
Paik sought certiorari in the Superior Court, arguing the Crown's intervention was in bad faith and an abuse of process.
The Superior Court dismissed his application, finding the Crown's actions appropriate and no evidence of bad faith.
Paik appealed this decision, as well as an earlier order concerning the disclosure of police officers' birth dates.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, affirming the Crown's discretion to withdraw private prosecutions when reasonable and probable grounds are absent, and noting the appellant failed to demonstrate bad faith or abuse of process.
The court also found the appeal regarding the disclosure of birth dates to be moot given the withdrawal of the underlying charges.