It was whether the President could order electronic surveillance in internal security matters without a warrant or some form of prior judicial authorization.

If a United States person is involved, judicial authorization was required within 72 hours after surveillance begins.

The Commission's reports recommended that police be required to obey the law and that judicial authorization be required before police could open mail.

Unlike applications for interception in other criminal cases there was no procedure for judicial authorization in the case of security applications.

In circumstances where this generally occurs, it is not feasible to subject the "sniffer dog's" sniff to prior judicial authorization.

Section 184.4 of the Criminal Code does not require any prior judicial authorization.

Approximately 24 hours later, they received judicial authorization for the wiretap.

Section 188 allows the police to seek prior judicial authorization in urgent situations.

Other emergency legislation in Canada, which do not require prior judicial authorization, still requires an "after-the-fact" notice to made to a judge or judice of the peace.

Four weeks later she asked for judicial authorization to terminate the pregnancy.