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RSS FeedsVeteran Toronto judge asks Federal Court to suspend discipline proceedings
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

24 march 2017 13:35:09

 
Veteran Toronto judge asks Federal Court to suspend discipline proceedings
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


A Toronto judge who just wants to retire in peace is coming out swinging against an oversight body that wants to haul him in front of a discipline panel for alleged wrongdoing. Superior Court Justice Frank Newbould, 73, is seeking a judicial review of a decision made at the Canadian Judicial Council to hold an inquiry over advice he provided to South Bruce Peninsula town council in 2014 on defending against a First Nations land claim, in an area where his family owns a cottage. The judicial council said in a statement last month that a five-member review panel found the allegations surrounding Newbould’s “intervention . . . in the context of a court case” so serious that if proven, “they may warrant the judge’s removal from office.”Newbould, who was appointed to the bench in 2006, already informed the federal justice minister that he intends to retire June 1. He has asked the Federal Court to impose a stay on the proceedings against him until his judicial review application is heard, which he has requested be dealt with on an expedited basis. And he’s got some friends in high places coming to his defence. “It is certainly not in the public interest in the case of Justice Newbould to continue an irrelevant process against one of Ontario’s most outstanding jurists, during the final months of his stellar career,” wrote Justice Susan Himel, president of the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association, in a letter to members of the council’s judicial conduct committee. “You are well aware of Justice Newbould’s many contributions to the administration of justice so I do not need to outline them here. Suffice to say that he has been a giant in the area of commercial law and has devoted himself to public service. The public interest demands that he be allowed to retire with dignity.” Himel declined to comment to the Star. She was also the presiding judge in a sensational 20 ...


 
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