A Vancouver man ticketed for riding a one-wheel electric skateboard without insurance has had his conviction overturned after the B.C. Supreme Court found the original judge had carried out a “miscarriage of justice.”

Michael Justin Advincula had been riding his skateboard along West Waterfront Road in Vancouver when a police officer ticketed him. He disputed the case, but after a brief trial, lost and was ordered by the traffic court judge to pay a $568 fine.

Advincula appealed his conviction to the B.C. Supreme Court on two fronts: procedural fairness, arguing bias, and the inherent unfairness of being ticketed for an uninsured device when insurance is impossible to obtain.

Supreme Court Justice Douglas Thompson was not convinced by Advincula’s procedural fairness arguments. But when

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