October
31, 2003
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| The information to obtain a search warrant is presumptively public. There is a high onus on the person seeking to keep it sealed from public view. Fair trial concerns can be overcome. This ruling, which CBC obtained after three years of combined argument and delay, should make it more difficult to seal such documents in the future. (For readers of the Globe and Mail, this is the result in the famous "Secret" proceeding which covered its front page for three days in November, 2003.) | |