Friday, May 04, 2007

 

Friday 4 May 2007 at 10:00 AM in B.C. Supreme Courtroom 54, pre-trial disclosure Hearing continues for Basi, Virk, Basi


Comments:
GARY posted the following message for me on Bill Tieleman's thread at The Tyee. Gary wrote:

Mary, at the end of March I had advised you that I would be in Van from about april 11th to 17th and would try to make all court dates that I could. As it turned out I could only make one. That I beleive was on the twelfth. Not being familiar with internet cafe's I was pressed to find other places to get at a computer. I finally used a community internet place but it wouldn't let me into your blog. Security they said. Anyway it was I who talked to Meghan outside the court. She had done a good job of communicating things to you from memory.

I had tried to post the following on your blog several times but for some reason it wasn't getting through. I have since discovered that sometimes you have to use those letters twice to get through.

A couple of things missed by everyone reporting that day were:

A charter application was due to be heard by May 7th if possible. (that's this monday)Bennett asked if it could be concluded in May.

Clients are not required to attend Disclosure.

The week of June 25th Justice Bennett has a matter she will deal with at that time.

As to a TRIAL DATE Justice Bennett asked, "Is there any thought to JULY 9TH?"

Defence council is not available May 17th and 18th.

Then Justice Bennett asked if there was any discussion on summer break. It was apparently agreed tha the month of August was good. So she set August 3rd to adjourn for the summer.

And there was a discussion of an October 9th voir dire in camera. Or a voir dire about "in Camera" It was very hard to hear.
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Gary: if you're at home now and able to use your own computer comfortably, we'd all appreciate it if you filled out these details as much as possible. I'd like to post it on the main space. OK?

And thanks again for your kind words posted on The Tyee for this web-site ... for your patience (I don't understand the problems you had with commenting here) ... and for keeping these very important trial date notes for us.

- BC Mary.
 
Hi Mary. Here's what I have jotted down from that day.

Defence was discussing something about all internal documents. Something about 1004 pages. They were moving for April 18th rather than the 16th. (If memory serves, that was to start disclosure).
The defence wanted the Charter Applications to commence at the conclusion of disclosure.
The crown took no position on this.
My next note is not too clear but it says "Date Wed 11th dissent. Moving to 18th"
Defence was seeking a release and would probably be slowed down by a week.
Justice Bennett said disclosure would commence April 18th
There was a discussion about a charter application on May 7th.
Then Justice Bennett said that she wanted all outstanning requests from the crown to the defence by noon. There was a discussion about logistics . Each office being far apart etc.
Then the Bornmann issue was discussed (about classes taught with him apparently present) and it was agreed that it was not an issue. Court will start at 10 AM and Justice Bennett "will not stand down"
The week of the 23rd Justice Bennett had a matter that she fully expected to be adjourned.

The next 6 items are listed above in your comment.

Then madam justice "arbitrarily set 120 days" for the actual court case. Which I assume will be counted around holidays and a voir dire, and weekends.Now I'm not exactly sure if the voir dire is about this case or another one that defence is working on.
Then there was a question to a Mr. Coffee about the delivery of some items to defence.He said he sent previously claimed items and some were returned "not relevant"

On viewing documents it was discussed that court doesn't have the staff . I can't quite remember how this all went. Whether it was for copying documents or editing or whatever.

My next and final note has to do with access by the media and public.

At some point after disclosure they had to work out access by the Media and the Public. They were considering the 16th and 17th (of April) to invite the media (at this point the public was not mentioned) to work out something.

That's the way I have it noted Mary. My memory probably would have been fresher 3 weeks ago. But there you go. Bill may have other notes that would embellish this. You are most welcome to use it in context with his work.
 
Thanks to Gary!

So if it starts in earnest July 9th and adjourns Aug 3rd we should have a whole lot of time to fact check and raise questions before the new fall season of the 'Wheel Of Fortune' errrrr..... 'The Trial Of The Century' begins.

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btw---- On the 'Ledge Boys and the WaterCarrier' this morning there was none/zero/no discussion of the Trial today, although they did lead with 10 minutes of why the MLA payraise spinorama is all Ms. James' fault (funny how the findings of that blue ribbon panel were released this week, huh). In addition, the Watercarrier did try to argue that he didn't see how Mr. Dobell could be a lobbyist if he wasn't shilling for big Tobacco or some such thing.......

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Mary or anyone here. Can you tell me if the legislature was sitting today. There is no Hansard Blues posted.
 
So in todays sun online deep down in the Westcoast News section the last item has an article where Joe Doyle is taking the solicitor general to task ove interferance.

Although its buried it is a fairly good article.
 
Just thought I'd pop in a question here about whether or not anything turned up in the papers this morning from yesterday's hearings?
gw
 
The legislature doesn't sit on Fridays.
 
I was going to comment on the leg sittings but it's the wrong place.
 
Anon 5:07pm

I was actually referring to the court, not the Legislature.
gw
 
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