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Title: NHL players charged with a sexual assault
Date: January 31, 2024
Description: On January 31, 2024, Tanya Walker appeared on CTV – Your Morning to discuss the sexual assault accusations faced by former Canadian World Juniors hockey players, the impact of Court delays, anonymity of the victim, and more.

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oh yeah make sure you send those in in
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the meantime we’re taking a closer look
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at a story we’ve been following this
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morning one of our top stories in fact
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four NHL players are facing sexual
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assault charges in connection with that
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2018 incident at a hockey cada Gala a
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fifth former nhlers surrendered to
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police over the weekend is also facing
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charges there are questions about how
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the trial will play out who else could
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be involved once it does go to court
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joining us this morning with more is
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Tanya Walker a lawyer and managing
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partner with Walker Law welcome back to
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your morning thank you for having me
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great to see you there’s a lot of things
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we don’t know yet and we are getting an
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update from London Police on Monday and
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important to note that these four NHL
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players still have not turned themselves
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in so we don’t know specifically what
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the charges are but we also know that
How could this affect this case
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Ontario’s court system is dealing with
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significant delays that come from staff
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shortages how could this affect this
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case well we still have to adhere to
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their Charter which is section 11 B
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which provides that in the case of RN
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Jordan that a trial a criminal trial
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must go to trial within 30 months um if
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you take into account any other delays
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but straightforward it’s 30 months we
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also have to take into account that uh
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five people could be could be charged
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separately um and that could rent result
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in five separate trials and what would
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probably make more sense in use of
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judicial resources um is to have if
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there is a trial all of them tried
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together at once so then the accused
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don’t have to testify many times and
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neither does a
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complainant the alleged victim in this
Who is the alleged victim
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case we know is identified only as em in
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court documents uh you know one of the
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one of the requirements is that em
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remain unnamed does that become more
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difficult once this case enters the
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courts I don’t think so I mean it’s up
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to the court but the court can um render
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a publication ban which provides that
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her name is not to be provided and I
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would not or published um without
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serious ramifications and I wouldn’t be
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surprised if that happens in this
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situation uh what what could this mean
What could this mean for other players
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for other members of the 28 World Junior
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Team could they be called to testify
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would they be brought in as as part of
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this trial once it does head to court
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well they could be called in to testify
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even if they a person does not volunteer
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there are they that person could be
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summonsed but my experience with civil
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trials is that Witnesses are that are
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summoned usually don’t want to really be
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there and and not may not make the best
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Witnesses but there is a chance that uh
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they might be summonsed uh they there
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could be more people that um are charged
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with a crime as more information comes
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out and uh developments unfold uh we
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will only see what will happen in the
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future we saw a lot of people when uh
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this went before parliamentary committee
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we did see a number of people
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interviewed including people from the
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overseeing bod such as Hockey Canada and
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Canada hockey could we also see members
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again come back to court once this goes
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to trial it depends on what they’re
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going to testify about because my
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understanding is that this is an
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incident that happened after um they
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received they won the world hockey um
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championship and so what Witnesses were
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around during that period of time um
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that could speak to what what has
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happened um maybe even afterwards but
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really what happened during that time so
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just depends on who was there at that
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function at that time um what are the
Rights for a victim
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rights for a victim in a case like this
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do they have to testify do they have to
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be cross-examined do they have to speak
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at all I’m not sure uh because I
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practice mostly civil law uh I would
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think that this person the com the
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accused I mean sorry the complainant or
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the victim would have to testify um I
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don’t know if the there would be a
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summons for that person to testify but
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usually when you do testify you can be
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subject to
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cross-examinations and so that is um a
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risk that um may be taken teny Walker I
Closing
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want to thank you for joining us this
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morning especially as we wait until
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Monday to hear from this press
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conference when we learn full details uh
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and more clear details around this case
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thanks for joining us today thank thank
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you for having
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me

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