Summary
After all, [Brian Mulroney] had sat on a commission himself, where he had a "bulldog" for a lead counsel, as [Richard Wolson] put it. Not that Wolson was a bulldog, he advised Mulroney.
Wolson was defence counsel for Derek Harvey-Zenk, the former Winnipeg police officer involved in the off-duty motor-vehicle death of Crystal Taman. In that role, Wolson wound up ensnared in a controversial joint plea bargain with Crown-appointed counsel Marty Minuk. That led to Harvey-Zenk receiving a conditional discharge and Wolson taking the witness box at the public inquiry that followed that notorious case.[Hymie Weinstein] calls himself a longtime friend of Wolson's -- they even ended up with golden retrievers from the same litter -- and Weinstein went to law school with [Jeffrey Oliphant]. He recalls a six-week trial he did in front of Oliphant, where Weinstein came away marvelling at his former classmate's abilities.See the full content of this document
Extract
Wolson Plays Starring Role at Oliphant Inquiry
I confess.
After being laid out hot and cold by the flu, I spent most of the week watching a kind of reality soap opera I took to calling The Boys on The Television Screen.It's more commonly known as the Oliphant inquiry and, at the risk of ...See the full content of this document
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