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Call to Action # 29 : Justice (25-42)

Ontario court rules survivors have no rights to documents

May 10, 2018

Survivors have no right to documents they argued were crucial to compensating them for the horrific abuses they suffered, Ontario’s top court has ruled. However, in its decision this week, the Appeal Court agreed the claimant had no direct tie to the civil litigation materials and the government, therefore, was not obliged to turn them over.