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Oil group lodges complaint over judge
Justice Todd Ducharme of the Ontario Superior Court is facing a complaint from EthicalOil.org after participating in an environmental mock trial.
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In the trial, organised by the Cape Farewell Foundation - a campaigner on climate change - the conclusion was a not guilty verdict for environmental activist David Suzuki. In its complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council, EthicalOil, an oil sands advocacy group, says that the mock trial was staged in the midst of a 'controversial political agenda' and that the staging 'was a deliberate hijacking of the trappings of a trial, the deliberate appropriation of the dignity and impartiality of the courts for a partisan campaign'. Source: Law Times News
