Posted on 06/22/2005 10:48:50 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
As all trials and administrative and quasi-judicial hearings do, the Gomery Commission concluded its evidentiary phase by hearing submissions from legal counsel for the various parties to the inquiry. Submissions are not testimony, nor are they evidence; they are merely arguments by which lawyers try to emphasize the evidence that it most beneficial to their clients in an attempt to obtain the most favourable result possible under the circumstances. Although lawyers cannot ethically mislead the court or the tribunal, they can put a spin on the facts to try and get the best result that they can.
Of all the submissions that were made to Justice Gomery, the ones that received the most coverage in the media were those made by David Scott and Peter Doody, counsel for former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. The media seemed shocked that Scott and Doody would ask that their client be exonerated by the inquiry’s commissioner in order to save Jean Chrétien’s supposed stellar reputation.
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