What the Brown matter says about values of senior judiciary | Agnès Whitfield

By Agnès Whitfield (July 4, 2023, 3:09 PM EDT) -- The Canadian Judicial Council’s continued refusal to make public its five-member review panel report recommending a public hearing into allegations of inappropriate conduct against now former Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown has led to considerable public outcry, and so it should. The nature of the allegations involving unwanted touching and harassment of two women, the lack of transparency at the Canadian Judicial Council and statements by Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner raise troubling questions about the commitment of our senior judiciary to their proclaimed judicial values of impartiality, integrity and transparency....