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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:55:54 -0400
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Subject: Ipperwash hearings deliberately stalled
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Ipperwash hearing adjourned
Lawyers accuse Premier of frustrating judicial process
By Kerry Gillespie
Toronto Star Staff Reporter
Premier Mike Harris is promising co-operation in public but
deliberately stalling in court over requests for documents
related to the fatal police shooting of Dudley George at
Ipperwash, lawyers for the victim's family have charged.
After reading a statement attributed to Harris in a weekend
newspaper, claiming he had instructed his lawyers to
provide all
necessary documents, lawyer Murray Klippenstein came before
Madame Justice Gloria Epstein in the Superior Court of
Justice
yesterday to request that Harris provide a list of documents
within five days.
Instead, Epstein granted the request of Harris' lawyer,
Dennis
Brown, for an adjournment until June 8. Lawyers for both
parties had agreed to the adjournment last week, but after
reading Harris' comments, Klippenstein said he felt it
was no
longer necessary.
Andrew Orkin, co-counsel for the George family, said
after the
hearing that the government was not co-operating with the
court process.
``We saw a continuing pattern of deliberate delay and
frustration of the judicial process,'' Orkin said outside
the
Osgoode Hall courtroom.
``Dudley George was shot on Sept. 6 of 1995. The public is
judicially and officially no closer to the facts than it
was on that
day,'' said Orkin, who added they have been waiting six
months
for documents from Harris.
OPP acting Sergeant Kenneth Deane was convicted of criminal
negligence causing death in the fatal shooting of George
when
officers confronted 30 unarmed native men, women and
children
protesting the desecration of their ancestors' burial
grounds at
Ipperwash Provincial Park.
The lawsuit by George's family alleges that Harris
personally
directed a massive police operation at Ipperwash, and
ordered
the OPP to use its paramilitary Tactical Response Unit to
confront protesters.
Brown said the documents ``will be forthcoming,'' but added
that there were other issues which should be dealt with
first.
The main one is whether Harris, Attorney-General Charles
Harnick and Solicitor-General Bob Runciman should be named
as defendants in the suit, he said.
On June 16, Brown will be requesting the right to appeal the
decision of Madame Justice Susan Lang of the former Ontario
Court, general division, who ruled they must remain in the
lawsuit.
Lawyers for the George family are calling this move a
obstructionist tactic and fear appeals of this kind could
delay
the suit for years.
``Mike Harris is doing exactly what we would expect him
to do,''
Orkin said.
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