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Judge’s Impartiality Questioned
An Ontario superior court judge is facing pressure to avoid future cases involving gay rights after he made controversial remarks at a gay pride festival in Halifax, Canada's Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.
An Ontario superior court judge is facing pressure to avoid future cases involving gay rights after he made controversial remarks at a gay pride festival in Halifax, Canada's Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.
Justice David Corbett told the crowd that most of the battles for gay rights had been "won," causing members of the community to raise questions about his impartiality.
Foremost in the push for Corbett to recuse himself from gay rights cases is conservative group Real Women of Canada, the Mail reported.
Corbett is known for representing Mark Hall as his lawyer in 2002, a year before taking the bench. According to the Mail, Hall took his Catholic school board to court after it denied him the right to take his boyfriend to the high school prom. (The Advocate)
