Law360 Canada ( April 24, 2018, 8:34 AM EDT) -- Applications by two media organizations for disclosure of submissions and materials filed by the parties with respect to applications for costs in two appeals that had yet to be heard and determined. The media’s disclosure requests related to the Court’s finding, based on fresh evidence that was admitted in the appeals, that an expert, Reeves, had perpetrated a fraud upon the trial court in deliberately misrepresenting her qualifications for the purpose of giving expert opinion evidence on the central issue of whether the father had sexually abused his children. This evidence provided the foundation for the trial judge’s ultimate finding on that issue. A publication ban on the disclosure of the names of the children or the respondent parents was issued by the trial court. Both the family and civil proceedings were subject to a sealing order in their entirety....