And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:55:54 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ipperwash hearings deliberately stalled Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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. "Let Us Consider The Human Brain As A Very Complex Photographic Plate" 1957 G.H. Estabrooks www.angelfire.com/mn/mcap/bc.html FOR K A R E N #01182 who died fighting 4/23/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aches-mc.org 807-622-5407 Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&