Judge orders instructions to lawyer in ‘unconquered people’ case be released | CBC News
Nova Scotians may soon know exactly what former Justice Department lawyer Alex Cameron was instructed to do to defend the province against an accusation it did not properly consult Indigenous communities in a 2016 court case.
In a decision handed down Thursday, Appeal Court Justice Duncan Beveridge ruled against the province’s motion to keep those instructions sealed. Instead, he ordered the information be made public in two weeks.
Beveridge said he wasn’t satisfied that the applicants — the province, McNeil and Whalen — “would suffer irreparable harm.”
“The only harm that I see to the applicants is embarrassment from Mr. Cameron putting in the public domain his allegations and evidence that challenge the notion that he advanced an argument on behalf of the Province without or contrary to instructions,” Beveridge wrote in his 19-page decision.