Author of the article: Glen Dawkins
Publishing date: Jul 13, 2021 • 5 hours ago • 3 minute read •
Glenn Joyal, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, speaks during a media availability in the Manitoba Court of Appeal about changes to the three levels of Manitoba Court in light of the COVID-19 pandemic on Tues., March 17, 2020. Photo by Kevin King /Winnipeg Sun
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A Manitoba judge says he was followed by a private investigator to try to embarrass him by catching him breaking public health orders, as he deliberates on a court challenge against those rules by seven churches.
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“Without wishing to sound apocryphal, as it relates to the still-unknown person or persons who hired the agency, the situation I have described raises the spectre of potential intimidation, and it can also give rise to possible speculation about obstruction of justice, direct and indirect,” said Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal during a special court hearing Monday morning.