Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd Winnipeg free press saturday june 20, 1981 3 plea court cuts Lump sum payments in Hull divorce Case by Steve Pona Manitoba court of Appeal yesterday shaved plus in monthly maintenance off the divorce Settle ment Bobby Hull must provide to his former wife but maintained an equal division of their commercial assets. In a unanimous judgment the court left Joanne Hull 46, a Lump sum pay ment of As Well As in Legal costs but eliminated her right to exclusive occupancy of their House in Vancouver where she had been living. James free mrs. Hull s Money will be secured by a charge against All of Bobby Hull s assets including his interest in the Winnipeg jets hockey club. The judgment written by or. Justice Alfred Monnin also eliminated the pro vision for a month in maintenance payments plus a maintenance award. The previous settlement which provided for a Lump sum payment had been ordered by Manitoba court of Queen s Bench Justice Louis Denise. Judge Monnin noted in his 10-Page judgment the divorce proceedings were unhappy and protracted and the court attempted to bring them to an Early end without further hearing or references with the attendant costs and lawyer Wayne Lalonde who represented Hull at the two Day Appeal hear ing last month had asked the court to reduce mrs. Hull s share of Commer Cial assets but judge Monnin said the equal division cannot be regarded As grossly unfair unconscionable or Ines the right to equal sharing is expressly conferred by the statute and is based on the concept that marriage is an institution of shared responsibilities and obligations Between the parties enjoying equal said judge Monnin. Hull 42, will have to pay his former wife a month for each of their three youngest children aged 11 to 16, until they turn 18. Both he and mrs. Hull had been ordered to contribute to a Trust fund for the children but judge Monnin said that was an inappropriate expression of the parents joint obligation to provide maintenance for he said the obligation can Best be provided by ongoing shared monthly contributions from both in a concurring opinion or. Justice Joseph o Sullivan noted Hull had been blamed for delay and difficulties in the Case but he said he found no grounds for criticism. However much or. Hull May be blamed for his share in the marriage breakdown there is nothing in the material to warrant the suggestion acted on by judge Denise that or. Hull wilfully refused to disclose the state of his financial affairs. Judge o Sullivan added or. Hull appeared at the trial in his own de Fence. He was subjected to unwarranted personal abuse by counsel for the the judge said he would not have allowed her any Legal costs beyond the Normal fees. Mrs. Hull was represented at the trial by Arthur Rich while Maurice Arpin argued Hull s Appeal. Good times begin the red River exhibition came to town yesterday and the expressions on the great. Kim Bruyere 14, and Corrine Bruyere 13, were among 20 658 persons faces of these two girls left no doubt they thought the rides were just who attended the exhibition opening Day. The sex runs until june 27. Patients right to know stressed by professor by Joe Rubin doctors sometimes won t Tell patients participating in clinical expert that the treatment alternative i Fiey receive has been selected at ran Dorn says a University of Manitoba professor. The reluctance stems from the ten Dency of patients who find out they Are receiving a randomly picked treatment to drop out of the clinical trial or. Arthur Schafer said yesterday. Speaking at a St. Boniface Hospital conference on the ethics of experimentation on human subjects Schafer said experimental results become progressively weaker As More patients drop out of a clinical trial. This prompts physicians to Overlook telling them school costs up enrolment Down 15% Winnipeg school division s Cost per student Rose 120 per cent in six years while enrolment dropped almost 15 per cent. Statistics published in the current Issue of our schools the division s publication said the 1980 City orders fire damaged restaurant to close the City s health department has declared a fire damaged restaurant unsanitary and has closed it until it is cleaned up. Mario s italian pizza 841 Ellice ave nue suffered an estimated damage in a june 8 Blaze. A restaurant closure order the first under Winnipeg s new restaurant disclosure policy Mario s is unfit to be occupied because of the fire damage. The City policy which came into effect june 4, Calls for disclosure of the names of restaurants which Are closed by the health department or which ignore department sanitation orders. Cost per student was compared with per student in 1974. During the same period division enrolment dropped 14.9 per cent to from Board chairman Mira Spivak said in an interview yesterday spending is expected to be More than a student in 1981. Spending estimates approved in March Call for total spending of million. Spivak also said enrolment has dropped by about 33 per cent since 1970, when the division had about students. She said spending has increased while enrolment has dropped because of inflation and the fact teaching Levels have been maintained. If teachers principals and teachers aides Are included the division s teacher Pupil ratio is about one teacher for every 13 students she said. Trustees took a hard look at spending during the 1978-80 electoral term but costs still Rose 40 per cent during those three years. Spivak said trustees weren t simply out to make cuts but wanted to find out How Money was being spent and become More account Able to taxpayers. Their treatments have been selected at random. Although some doctors will argue it is legitimate to withhold such information the professor said it is unethical not to Tell the patient. Schafer who teaches biomedical ethics at the University of Manitoba medi Cal school said much medical research involves a combination of treatment and research leaving the doctor open to a possible conflict of interest. A physician who is also a researcher is committed to pursuing scientific knowledge while at the same time must be devoted to the Well being of his patients. This puts doctors testing unproven treatments in a difficult situation especially because their patients rely on them for their judgement. Best alternative Schafer said doctors conducting re search must still provide their patients with the Best treatment alternative. Consequently a physician must not allow his patient to participate in a clinical Experiment where the treat ments Are selected at random unless the doctor is indifferent about the merits of the treatment alternatives. A further ethical dilemma May arise in the Middle of an Experiment when preliminary results indicate that a particular treatment is More effective than the others. Is a doctor whose patient is on an other treatment obliged to inform his patient and change his treatment Schafer said there Are no easy an Swers to this question. If one argues that a doctor s commitment is to his patient Many experimental trials May be scrapped in Midstream. On the other hand said Schafer an Experiment s results Are liable to change before its conclusion. With drawing a patient Midway through the trial May be beneficial in the Short term but harmful in the Long run. Because Many medical researchers must rationalize patient welfare with i the need to get favourable experimental results in order to obtain More Grants and professional Schafer stressed the need for a patient advocate to protect the patient s rights. Union accepts motor coach plan to clean up Plant All soldering personnel and certain welding personnel at Winnipeg s motor coach industries plants will have to Wear management supplied Respirator face masks according to a company plan to make its operations safer. A press release from provincial labor minister Ken Macmaster says both his department and the Plant Union International association of machinists representatives Are satisfied with the company plan. A labor department Survey in dec Ember february and March of 26 Plant employees working in the Silver solder ing areas found two had Throat cancer ;