What is mootness and what is the effect of mootness on Charter challenges?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from Fogal v. Canada, 1999 CanLII 7932 (FC):
Sopinka J. reviewed the issue of mootness and the closely related issue of the necessity of a factual foundation for Charter challenges in Phillips v. Nova Scotia, 1995 CanLII 86 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 97, stating at p. 111, that
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