{"id":10485,"date":"2014-05-16T05:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T21:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T21:49:56","slug":"supreme-court-will-hear-appeal-from-a-man-wrongfully-convicted-who-wants-to-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/16\/supreme-court-will-hear-appeal-from-a-man-wrongfully-convicted-who-wants-to-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court will hear appeal from a man wrongfully convicted who wants to sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_39177982.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10486\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_39177982.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_39177982\" width=\"1000\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_39177982.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_39177982-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">OTTAWA\u2014The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal from a British Columbia man who spent 27 years in prison for sexual assaults he did not commit and who wants to sue the Crown for negligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In 2011, Ivan Henry filed civil lawsuits against the provincial and federal attorneys general, the City of Vancouver and three members of its police department.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bupropion online <a href=\"http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/bupropion.html\">http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/bupropion.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">He sought damages for malicious prosecution, abuse of process, misfeance in public office and an award for charter damages for what he says were serious breaches of the Crown\u2019s disclosure obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">In April 2013 a judge allowed him to amend his pleadings on the topic of charter damages and include an allegation that the Crown\u2019s actions were an unacceptable departure from the reasonable standards expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The defendants appealed, arguing Henry shouldn\u2019t be allowed to seek compensation for conduct that was negligent and the provincial Court of Appeal agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The Supreme Court will hear Henry\u2019s appeal from the decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Henry was convicted of 10 offences involving eight complainants in 1983 and was declared a dangerous offender.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy zithromax online <a href=\"http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/zithromax.html\">http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/zithromax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The B.C. Court of Appeal acquitted him of the offences in October 2010, after hearing the judge made several mistakes during his trial.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy valtrex online <a href=\"http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/valtrex.html\">http:\/\/nomaa.org\/images\/gif\/valtrex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The Crown also conceded that evidence wasn\u2019t disclosed to Henry, as it should have been, and if he was tried again he wouldn\u2019t be convicted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal from a British Columbia man who spent 27 years &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288035,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/288035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}