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Just as two major inquiries into police activities during the G20 summit in Toronto are approaching completion — nearly two years after the fact— questions are being raised whether the reports may be too little too late.

“When conducting an inquiry,
time is of the essence,” said Ontario
Ombudsman André Marin, who
completed a related investigation
in just 90 days. “For it to have
credibility, the freshest evidence is
the best evidence.”
In December, 2010, the
ombudsman delivered a scathing
condemnation of a provincial
regulation that allowed police to
detain and question people with-
out a warrant. Marin called it the
“most massive compromise of
civil liberties in Canadian hist-
ory.” As a result, the Ontario gov-
ernment is moving to scrap the
offending legislation.
Meanwhile, the provincial
Office of the Independent Police
Review Director is set to release
its findings this month while
another arms-length review com-
missioned by the Toronto Police
Services Board is to deliver its
report on June 29, two years after
the 2010 summit.

“It’s not too late,” said Ryan Teschner, counsel to the police service board’s Independent Civilian Review into Matters Relating to the G20 Summit that was

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A bid by the Crown to cut back the litigation privilege that normally shields lawyers’ notes from outside scrutiny has been firmly rejected by the Ontario Superior Court.

Justice Frank Marrocco held that lawyers who once represented two former executives of Nortel Networks Corp. don’t have to produce notes they took in 2004 when their then-clients were interviewed by investigators looking into accounting irregularities at the high-tech company. The Crown had sought the notes, which detail questions and answers from interviews of then chief executive officer Frank Dunn and chief financial officer Douglas Beatty.

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Dunn, Beatty and former Nortel controller Michael Gollogly are all on trial on charges of fraud, based on allegations they orchestrated a plan to manipulate the company’s financial statements to trigger bonus payments for senior officials.

CHRISTOPHER GULY

non-Toronto president gives me the additional opportunity to reach out to regions and encourage them to be involved and for the association to reciprocate by involving the regions,” Boxall said.

Norm Boxall made history last
December when he was acclaimed
as president of the Criminal Law-
yers’ Association in Ontario.

nian to head the CLA in its 41-year history. He put his name forward for the top job because he felt “an important symbolic message” would be sent to the more than 1,000 members of the association that the CLA is “not just about Toronto” and that he, as an outsider, has the opportunity to reach out to members in the 18 regions outside the provincial capital.

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“Generally, a barrister’s
notes, whether written or elec-
Boxall, a founding partner of
the Ottawa firm Bayne Sellar
Boxall, is the first non-Toronto-

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“An important issue, recog-
nized even by my Toronto col-
leagues, is the fact that being a
“It’s probably a breath of fresh
air for everybody who doesn’t
live in Toronto,” joked Bill
Trudell, who chairs the Can-
adian Council of Criminal
Defence Lawyers and is a former
vice-president of the CLA. “It

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