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Oct 4 2021
Ian Mulgrew: B.C. civil disobedience trumps law enforcement at Fairy Creek
Opinion: Injunctions have long and often turned the court into a tool for Big
Business and Bad Government. This time it didn’t work.

Mohandas Gandhi would be proud — civil disobedience won another round in B.C.
Supreme Court and the rule of law was defined as much more than simply law
enforcement.

Justice Douglas Thompson’s refusal to extend a one-year injunction restricting
protests against logging in the Fairy Creek watershed emphasized the impartial
status of courts and civil rights are equally important societal values.

A top lawyer involved in the case, Steven Kelliher said the injunction raised
serious concerns and should never have been issued:

“The courts get drawn into an enforcement role, stepping aside from their
adjudicative role that we expect them to have, and they run the risk that they
are going to be tainted both by the politics of the day — which is significant
when there is large public disagreement and civil disobedience — and they are
also going to be tainted by the manner in which the injunction was enforced.”

Oct 4 2021
Ian Mulgrew: Dirty money, legal deadlines tough on police
Prosecutors “spend a good deal of time answering basic questions from law
enforcement about commercial crime, how to prepare reports to Crown counsel, and
questions on the fundamentals of commercial investigations.”

The inquiry into money laundering must wrestle with the nettlesome issue of the
inability or failure of police to provide admissible evidence to support more
than a handful of dirty-money prosecutions.

Many witnesses addressed the thorny problem during the commission’s hearings,
and proposed solutions included creating an expensive new agency to tackle
economic crime or beefing up the current response — aggressive use of the
self-financing civil forfeiture office.

Senior Crown counsel — who approve charges and shepherd money-laundering and
proceeds-of-crime cases through trial — were surveyed by the commission in
November and February and their responses are contained in an overview report
that has been filed as an exhibit.

Oct 4 2021
Ian Mulgrew: Casino cash tied to property-backed loans
″(I am) a member of a private lending business serving a clientele with diverse
needs. Sometimes, I lend my money. At times, I lend my associates’ money.”

Paul King Jin, aka “Brother Bao,” has failed to stop the release of a report
prepared for the inquiry into money laundering alleging he provided millions to
gamblers who pledged property to secure loans.

The 653-page document titled, “Paul Jin Debt Enforcement Against B.C. Real
Estate,” details more than 20 big-time gamblers accused of owing massive debts
to him as well as possible competitors — suspected loan sharks and private
lenders.

Jin was granted participant status at the two-year-old inquiry last Nov. 5 out
of fairness because he was barred from casinos starting in 2012 and was accused
of being a major supplier of the tide of cash that swamped the gaming facilities
from roughly 2010 to 2015.

He was also a target of the 2015 RCMP E-Pirate investigation that focused on a
Richmond money service business believed to be supplying the currency. Jin was
not charged.

Oct 4 2021
Ian Mulgrew: Is challenging new B.C. court pronouns policy OK or akin to hate
speech?
Resolution before the Law Society of B.C.’s annual general meeting poised to put
a contentious issue through the gender blender.

In a profession still using M’Lord and M’Lady, some B.C. lawyers have balked at
new court rules that ask participants in legal proceedings which pronouns they,
he or she prefers.

But the brush fire of controversy sparked earlier this year by the changes has
kindled into a blaze with a resolution before the Law Society of B.C. annual
general meeting calling for a debate on the directives about consideration for
gender differences.

In a world of gay pride parades and respect for transgender individuals,
the Canadian Bar Association-B.C. Branch denounced the motion as akin to hate
speech.

“This is not a benign resolution,” president Clare Jennings maintained in a
message to the roughly 7,000 provincial members of the lobby group.

Sep 17 2021
Cullen inquiry: Whistleblower threw away evidence, commission hears
He was proud of what he did even though it meant breaking the law — he was
“shining a light on a dark issue.”

Former head of anti-money-laundering programs and whistleblower Ross Alderson
was savaged in cross-examination Friday by lawyers for gaming firms and
executives he impugned.

The man, whose accusations about dirty money and leaks to the media sparked an
outcry that helped launch the inquiry into money laundering, was defensive and
dissembled trying to explain his own acknowledged misconduct.

In an online appearance from Australia, Alderson testified he made an anonymous
complaint in 2019 against former B.C. Lottery Corp. executive Robert Kroeker — a
complaint found to be unsubstantiated.

“That’s a technical term,” the former Australian cop snapped. “There was no one
there to corroborate what I said, so it was unfounded.”


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