After lawyers finished making their final arguments on the “veil issue,” Ontario Court Justice Norris Weisman gave them some homework over Tuesday’s lunch break.
He asked them to report on whether the issue could be resolved if the complainant, known in court as N.S., testified without her niqab via closed-circuit TV.
Defence lawyer Douglas Usher, who represents one of the two men accused of sexually abusing the woman when she was a child, told the judge he could live with that as long as he could clearly see her on a TV monitor.
“I’d be hard-pressed to assert infringement of fair trial rights,” he said. [Toronto Star] Read more
