GordCoVille
Canada Post to be more precise.
The blame part I mean.
Because, apparently, it was their fault for not getting govenment documents to the RailGate defense team in time for today's court hearing.
Robin Mathews, over at Mary's place, has that story:
"Beginning early, eight or nine lawyers assembled close to nine-thirty a.m.. A little later three people were in the gallery, none of them press and media. Regulars.
Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett read a decision about disclosure of memoranda, releasing some requested material to Defence.
Then. Mr. Copley (counsel for cabinet) dropped off a box of documents and returned quickly to the court (elsewhere) where he was appearing. Apparently, he had also sent, by mail, documents that could not reach Defence counsel Kevin McCullough by the week-end.....
Now, of course, there's no harm no foul there, right?
After all, the defence team could just put on their Evelyn Wood speed-reading glasses and everything could move forward, right?
Wrong.
Again, here's Mr. Mathews, whose account of the proceedings will likely be the only one you will read given that, according to him at least*, there were NO members of the proMedia in the room:
There was more. But suffice it to say that the sudden need to exchange and supply documents in large quantities among Defence, Crown, BC Rail, and Gordon Campbell cabinet created a situation in which necessary review was impossible - even though a try was made at the suggestion of Defence lawyer Keven McCullough by a one hour court recess.
It wasn't enough time. Court had to break......
{Snippety doo-dah}
....Tuesday's hearing has been cancelled.
What's that old saying about justice delayed being justice denied?
And in this case I'm not just talking about justice for the defendants.
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Alright.
Enough with the niceties.
It's been more than five years.
Five freaking years.
And government lawyers are still getting away with this crap?!!!!
Unbelievable.
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*And make no mistake, while he may wax quixotic at times, Mr. Mathews has never let us down on the barebone facts at the nut of the thing in his reportage.
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