[Proceedings of the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1988-11-10]
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is part of: Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts
creator: British Columbia. Supreme Court
issued: 2013
created: 1988-11-10
description: In the Supreme Court of British Columbia, between: Delgamuukw, also known as Albert Tait, suing on his own behalf and on behalf of all the members of the House of Delgamuukw, and others, plaintiffs, and Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Province of British Columbia and the Attorney General of Canada, defendants: proceedings at trial.
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note: 9477 Proceedings 1 VANCOUVER, B.C. 2 November 10, 1988 3 4 THE REGISTRAR: Order in court. 5 THE COURT: Owing to the absence of the Lieutenant-Governor in 6 the Province I'm required as administrator to sign a 7 large volume of documents this morning, and I'm told 8 that it will take about 15 minutes at about 10:30. I 9 have to adjourn for that purpose. I understand the 10 time pressures that counsel have mentioned and if 11 necessary we'll sit extra this evening to make up the 12 lost time. 13 MR. GRANT: Thank you, my lord. I anticipate from what Mr. 14 Willms said to me yesterday that we'll maybe finish by 15 noon hour or a little later. 16 THE COURT: Oh, well, I can't sit into the noon hour today, but 17 I hope this won't mean that we will have to come back 18 this afternoon unnecessarily, but that may be the 19 result. 20 MR. GRANT: Yes, of course we're available. Dr. Hatler's flight 21 is scheduled for 4:30 today if things work out. 22 THE COURT: We'll do the best we can. 23 THE REGISTRAR: In the Supreme Court of British Columbia, 24 Vancouver, this Thursday, November 10, 1988. In the 25 matter of Delgamuukw versus Her Majesty the Queen at 26 bar, my lord. And I caution the witness, you're still 27 under oath. 28 MR. GRANT: My lord, before I start, I would like to raise a 29 matter which causes me some concern, and I think we 30 can canvass it on Monday, because counsel for the 31 defendants may wish to take a position on it. We have 32 proposed in the two-week period of November 28th to 33 December 5th a cross-examination of 28 witnesses. The 34 history of this has been with the other experiences 35 we've had, has been that the Provincial defendant 36 immediately before the cross-examination delivered a 37 list of documents to me, that is the day -- the Friday 38 before. Of course, we didn't have an opportunity to 39 review those documents. Between the Provincial and 40 Federal defendants we're now, I think I can safely 41 say, although I haven't calculated the…
has type: Trial proceedings
spatial: British Columbia
identifier: KEB529.5.L3 B757
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0019495
language: English
subject: Uukw, Delgam, 1937-
subject: Indigenous peoples--Canada
subject: Oral history
subject: Wet'suwet'en First Nation
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : United Reporting Service Ltd.
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