Supreme Court strikes down law requiring sex offenders to be automatically added to registryHarper-era law required those convicted of two or more sex offences to be added to registry for lifeAutomatically adding sex offenders to registry is unconstitutional, Supreme Court rulesThe Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a 2011 change to the Criminal Code requiring sex offenders to automatically be added to the sex offenders registry is unconstitutional.At the Alberta Court of Appeal, two of three judges ruled that automatically adding the names of sex offenders to a national registry for life does not violate the offender's charter rights.They dismissed arguments from the Crown suggesting that because judges may have improperly exempted sex offenders from being included in the sex offender registry, automatic inclusion was necessary."To the extent some trial judges may have interpreted the former exemption too broadly, those trial decisions are always subject to appellate review and guidance," the decision said.The majority said that while the law may have been designed to target people convicted of a sexual offence who then later go on to commit another sexual offence, it was capturing people whose convictions relate to a single incident."