A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 16, 2000

Crowns upset with gov’t

H.C’s ‘CROWN prosecutors are escalating their job ac-
tion after 1 two-day walkout last week came and went
without any response from the provincial government.

B.C,’s 400 prosecutors were to have voted on the jab
action last Friday,

No cases were dismissed during the two-day strike
last weck because Terry Wright, a private lawyer, was
hired to handle the workload.

Administrative Crown Paul Kirk also worked briefly
on both Tuesday and Wednesday to fill a personal obli-
gation to an in custody case. ,

Local Crown Counsel representative Grant Lindsey

said Wednesday the.B.C. Crown Counsel Association |.

isn’t happy about a dozen cases were dismissed i in other
areas of the province.

He said association negotiators met with § government |

representatives until late in the evening of Feb. 14 in
hopes to prevent the two-day walkout Feb. 15 and 16.
When issues couldn’t be resolved prosecutors resigned
themselves to the two-day job action.

B.C.’s prosecutors have been working without a con-

Highway turn
solution wanted

ded in a city-wide study.

RCMP Inspector Doug Wheler said officers will mon-
itor the conduct of motorists at the intersection.

The group plans to send a letter to the highways mini-
stry asking it to examine the problem. It suggests the
ministry could eliminate the right hand merging lane,
which would force drivers to turn at a right angle.

Or, the group adds, the ministry could build a median
to separate the eastbound traffic from the westbound
traffic on the stretch of highway that passes by the Cap-
perside up to the intersection. In essence, that would
prevent motorists from scooting across the highway once
they have turned using the right hand turn lane.

In that same fetter, the group is asking highways to
look at pedestrian safety on the Thornhill Creek bridge
along Queensway.

Group participant Morris Mason said pedestrians use
the bridge, which does not have a sidewalk, to get ac-
cess to a riverside trail near the Queensway dike.

Decision reserved
after 10-day trial

A FORMER Terrace resident and auxiliary RCMP offi-
cer will wait until April 3 to find out if a B.C. Supreme
Court judge will find him guilty of crimes he is alleged
to have committed more than 25-years ago.

The 65-year-old man stood trial in B.C. Supreme
Court here, for 10. days this month for allegedly assault-

ihg ,seven ‘People, in Terrace, Kitimat, Kamloops and-

Vancouver between . 1966 and 1975,

. Justice K.E. Neilson reserved decision after the trial
portion concluded Feb. 17.

Though he was originally charged 40 crimininal code
offences including sexual assault, buggery, assault
causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon and wea-
pons charges, the charges were reduced to 17 during the
course of trial.”

More than half of the alleged offences are alleged to
have occurred in Terrace and Kitimat while the man
worked as a welder and restaurant owner,

The accused now lives in Burnaby and is restricted
from visiting Terrace until the April 3 decision.

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tract since March 1998. Central to their job action is. es-
lablishing a mandatory process to resolve future contract
disputes.

“This job action is about lack of process, ” said Lind-
sey last week,

The lawyers also want more money, saying starting
wages of $39,000 a year rising to. 876, 900 after 10 years
aren't good enough .

“The Terrace office usually has 1, 200 active files, split
between three prosecutors...

‘Lindsey said-Crown work conditions just aren’t con-
ducive to keeping the best lawyers on public payroll.
“We're. losing our experienced lawyers,” said Lind-
sey. “There's $ more money | to be made nol being a Crown

~ lawyer”

Lindsey ran a private practice here until last year. He
decided to work for the Crown in June when the govern-
ment appointed Stephen Owen to assess the state of la-
bour relations between it and its lawyers. That appoint-
ment averted planned job action last year.

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