In R v Jarvis, the Supreme Court of Canada
convicted a high school teacher of voyeurism after finding that
students had a reasonable expectation of privacy while at
school.
The teacher in question taught at a high school in London,
Ontario. Unbeknownst to his students, he recorded them during
ordinary school activities using a hidden camera concealed in a
pen. Almost all of these videos focused on the faces and breasts of
female students, and the vast majority of them featured students
wearing low-cut or close-fitting tops. The teacher's conduct
was expressly prohibited by school board policy.
He was charged with voyeurism under s. 162(1) of the
Criminal Code on the basis that he surreptitiously
recorded the students in circumstances that gave rise to a
reasonable expectation of privacy, and because the recordings were
done for sexual purposes.
