The complaint against Mr. Brown has been shrouded in secrecy from the beginning
. The Supreme Court did not announce his absence when Chief Justice Wagner placed the judge on paid leave on Feb. 1.
Eventually, a police report and body-cam footage from the Paradise Valley police department in Arizona surfaced, including witness interviews with women who described Mr. Brown as “creepy.” Police laid no charges, and Mr. Brown says the allegations of harassment are false. The“The two versions of the facts in the public domain are virtual polar opposites,” said Archie Kaiser, a professor at Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law in Halifax.
The council was set to release its report ordering an inquiry last Thursday at 2 p.m. But moments before the release, Mr. Brown asked for time to consider his options. “If it is reasonable to delay announcements so that Justice Brown can have some personal reflection time, I think it probably then is also incumbent upon the Canadian Judicial Council to make public at least some outline or sense of why they wanted to go to a public inquiry and what that inquiry was going to look into,” said Margot Young, a constitutional law specialist at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law.
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