“The court must always have access to the entire (record of proceedings), for the purposes of the hearing of these applications for judicial review,” he wrote. Now three separate groups of doctors are seeking a judicial review of the privacy commissioner’s order. The relevance of the information cannot be determined until the judicial review is conducted, he said. “On this issue, I start with the basic proposition that proceedings in our courts must be open to the public,” Nordheimer said. Nordheimer denied a request from the doctors to prevent the Star’s two lawyers on the case from having access to the names.

Source: thestar March 14, 2017 22:02 UTC