The Legislature Raids

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File #23299-5 Limited Access & Others v. HMTQ.
Application for records in possession of the Province of British Columbia.

BC Supreme Court, 800 Smyth Street, Vancouver.

Monday February 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM.


This may look low-key but in my opinion today's Basi Virk session could be the Showdown at the OK Corrall ... will lawyers for Dave Basi and Bobby Virk be able to stare down the lawyers for the government (and/or the Crown)? How will the "Province of British Columbia" explain its demands for additional secrecy? Will Madam Justice Bennett intervene and rule that the "Province of British Columbia" must release those documents in order for the Accused to properly defend themselves?

Today's session might prove to be a very interesting development, bringing the proceedings much closer to the heart of the BC Rail Case. - BC Mary.

Ha! And Huh! Keep reading ... !!!

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UPDATE, 3:00 PM, Report from Robin Mathews:


Dear Mary.

No. Today wasn't a Basi/Virk day. Sorry. I went down; there was nothing on the board - the board beginning with Brenner (ch Justice). So - knowing their wonderful competence - I went up to courtroom 65 in case they had misplaced the first page with Bennett on it (it is alphabetical). Nothing there. Over the concrete rail I saw Neal Hall talking on his phone. I went down with a note asking if BBV was on today. He said he didn't know, shrugged.

So. after ten I went down to scheduling, stood in a line-up, several behind me, for ten minutes, and then the nice lady asked what I wanted. I explained that Basi/Virk was on the website list this a.m. but there was no show. She went to her computer and looked at it for awhile.

"No Basi/Virk today," she said. "It was on last Thursday and will be on again this Thursday, Feb 19, at ten a.m."

Informed, at last, - about being actively misinformed - I set out for home wondering what a Supreme Court judge like Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett would charge for the hours I wasted over a Vancouver Law Courts announcement about the case she is conducting.

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With Robin's report, I went immediately back to the Public Access Supreme Court Criminal List for 16-Feb-2009 again ... and to my great surprise (not) ... I found that File #23299-5 (the Basi Virk File number) was gone. It had been the first entry in the 8 page lineup, but it was gone. Gone. Just like that.

So is it safe to accept what the nice lady said about the next Basi Virk hearing being on Thurs., Feb. 19?? - BC Mary.


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