Bill Majcher appearance in Vancouver Supreme court

Bill Majcher made an appearance today at 9:00 AM in Vancouver Supreme court. In addition to the two lawyers the crown had in court they also had three more lawyers in Ottawa from the DOJ on video link. I thought it was going to be a decision on the admissibility of evidence but it was just another date to coordinate and set a whole bunch of other dates.

Bill Majcher's lawyer is trying to get a disclosure and they are fighting it. They're like oh we don't have it. Oh it's covered by Section 38 and can't be disclosed due to nation security. Where have we heard that before? The first thought that came to mind is what do you mean you don't have it? You charged the guy and now you're trying to find dirt on him? That is ridiculous.

They mentioned something about having to make a third party application to get it from the document holder, likely CSIS. All this song and dance just to get a disclosure to see what evidence they have on him which is a great big nothing just like that fake picture that was a screen shot from a movie. 

December 8th they have some kind of hearing scheduled to see if the judge is going to order them to produce documents. The judge is Martha Devlin who is very intelligent and well known. 

Not all their evidence is going to be covered by a section 38 objection so they have to make two files. One file that isn't covered by a section 38 objection that they can produce if she orders it and another file that they can hold onto until the Section 38 challenge is heard. Sounds like a huge amount of red tape just to get a disclosure. I guess lying about the movie screen shot is a matter of national security.