Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local judges urged to explain decisions Manitoba top judge pushes for ethics rules Manitoba top judge is leading the charge to encourage Canadian judges to step Down from the Bench and speak publicly about How and Why they make their courtroom chief Justice Richard Scott Spear headed a committee which established a set of ethical guidelines for judges including a push for judges to respond to attacks on the judiciary by publicly explaining the Justice system and their role in the new principles come at a time when Manitoba judges Are facing an unprecedented amount of Public criticism Over decisions such As allowing suspects in serious crimes to be freed on Scott said More education May be whats needed to help the Public to understand the there have been limits on our free Dom of speech in place to preserve the Cook dead after restaurant stabbing Steff a 31yearold Cook at the Pony Corral restaurant on Nairn Avenue is dead after being stabbed several times in the Kitchen by a fellow employee last its the cites 14th homicide of the Winnipeg police duty Bruce Foster said a 27yearold male suspect is in police said a charge of second degree murder is expected to be Laid this Foster said the victim was rushed to Concordia Hospital after the 6 but he later succumbed to his it happened in the Kitchen Foster the victim was a Foster said it didst appear its a disgruntled employee Type of i dont know what their problem but it must have been a big he i think whatever the problem was it was directly Between those four relatives of the victim holding Vigil in the hospitals emergency Ward before he died refused at the 1050 Nairn restaurant last numerous police cruisers and vans were parked outside the while people could be seen moving around a red Neon sign indicated the restaurant was closed and the Large business sign outside was turned an unidentified Man came outside the restaurant and ordered a photographer to leave the property before being restrained by two other restaurant manager Peter said he would not comment at this Foster said the suspect left the but was later arrested in a House on Elsbury Bay in a resident on the Street said he heard the suspect didst live in the but had gone impression of judicial Iff Ipar said Scott in a rare interview in his but we also recognize that we have to be More prepared to explain our selves to the Suelie about matters that affect the administration of Over the last four Scott led a committee of judges which conducted dozens of interviews and seminars with judges and Law school Deans to create a set of ethical Princi pies for judges across the the resulting document was released last week by the Canadian judicial Council who has been a judge in Manitoba since said the judicial sys tem has become More Complex and More in need of the Public needs to know How the court operate and the things we look at in he adding sentencing principles have been one of chief Justice Richard Scott the main causes of controversy and misunderstanding in recent no judge wants to be but sometimes we have to make decisions that make people were Here to uphold the Rule of but it has been frustrating at times for judges to not be Able to explain the while Scott recognized a move towards More openness on the part of judges represents a new he said other suggested changes to the Judi Ciary like haying elected judges or employed for fixed terms May not be so he noted the government is involved via the Crown in every criminal Case and in up to a third of civil if 1 have to be concerned that if 1 Render a decision that is unpopular with the government that 1 might lose my tenure that he we have to be impartial and secure in the knowledge that our decisions wont affect our Scott also spoke out about the idea of electing judges and said the idea is foreign to the Canadian system and would result in judges campaigning for their talk about politicizing the he Marc free press victims remembered Stacey Soldier right holds a Candle with her daughter teryn during the women memorial Vigil at the legislature last the Vigil marked the ninth anniversary of the Mas Sacre of 13 women shot and killed by a deranged gunman at the University of it also marked the violent deaths of seven women and four children in Manitoba this sask Tel issues threat to teenage web master radio systems name a trademark lawyer by Doug Nairne legislature reporter its in a name a lot if you Are the Saskatchewan phone company has threatened to sue a Winnipeg teenager who thumbed his nose at the telecommunications establishment by using the internet to Tell people How to listen in on a High tech radio system that had been billed As but sask Tel int threatening Shaun Willingham for spoiling its sales pitch on the flee net trucked radio the phone company claims Willinghams web site violates copyright True to has posted the publicly owned sask Els threats on the and vowed to keep his Page there trying to scare but i wont go for he said in an Over his digitally secured Ceullar flee net is used by hundreds of com police forces and ambulance services in Saskatchewan and both the ramp and Winnipeg police bought the system after being told it was secure from scanning by listeners who use receivers to pick up conventional radio but using new scanner hobbyists have cracked the flee net system and posted the frequencies they locate on Willinghams web listening in is but the phone companies that Market flee net Are not Willingham said both Manitoba telecoms services and sask Tel have visited his web Page dozens of he thinks the real motivation for sask Els threats is the desire to shut Down his Page so that More people dont discover flee net is not As secure As once sask Tel lawyer Bruce Munro sent a recent email letter to Willingham warn ing him to immediately remove any reference to flee net from his web my clients position is quite simply that your use of the term flee net in both the name for your site and other Wise is a Clear infringement of its registered he if infringement is not rectified immediately we will proceed with the Neces Munro went of to say sask Tel Woi ild seek damages for Willinghams use of the flee net Willingham said Hes not going shut Down his web or knuckle under to threats from just because some Guy is a lawyer Doest mean he can Tell me what to he that for the courts to High Hopes ride on endangered species Bill by Kevin Rollason staff reporter grizzly bears that once roamed the Prairies can now Only be found in the and the passenger Pigeon its disappeared Sarah Dover of the Canadian endangered species Campaign Hopes a fed eral Law in the works will prevent in future what happened to those two once indigenous with we cant afford to screw up Dover said last shortly before a scheduled speaking engagement to raise awareness of the proposed endangered species is a 911 Call from the Dover said 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