Yesterday we attended a hearing at the Law Society of Manitoba to consider a motion introduced by accused former member "Blackie" to recuse Winnipeg lawyer David M. Skwark ("Dapper" - FilmoreRiley) appointed to prosecute the case. If the LSM is to be believed apparently prosecutors are incapable of having any "real or apparent biases" nor do they make decisions. We'll have much more to say on the subject shortly.
The panel was chaired by Jennifer A. Cooper, Q.C. from local firm Deeley Fabbri Sellen.
Ms Cooper was called to the Bar in 1981 and has specialized for the past several years practicing family law. She lectures on the subject to the profession and the public, including nationally and internationally. Active in the Canadian Bar Association, she has served as Manitoba Branch President, as well as, Chairperson of the National Family Law Section. More recently she has been serving as a Bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba.She is committed to collaboration wherever possible, but will also litigate, negotiate, or mediate dependant upon the needs of the client. She is a partner at Deeley Fabbri Sellen, a firm of 15 lawyers including a team of 5 solicitors who specialize in family law.
903 - 386 Broadway
Telephone: 949-1710 ext.233
Email: Jcooper@dfslaw.ca
Your next public interest panel member there to protect you from excesses of Manitoba's legal profession was Roberta Campbell from Winnipeg's Campbell Gunn Inness.
Ms Campbell is Founding and Past Chair for the Association in Defence of the Wrongfully Convicted (Manitoba).Perish the thought but if Blackie is convicted, in no small part due to an overly zealous prosecutor devoid of any decision making scope and without real or apparent biases, at least he won't have to go far to seek redress.
Finally, there was Sergeant Kenneth Molloy of the Winnipeg Police Service the panel's Public Representative who's involved with the University of Manitoba's Department of Continuing Education's Police Services Specialization Program - that is, when he's not in the WPS's shiny, new $3.5 million helicopter watching you.We were unable to find a picture of Sergeant Molloy so had to dig deeply into our site's image archive to come up with this.
If Blackie is convicted he can be arrested and cuffed on the spot before being shipped off to wherever The Society sends its reprobates.And that Readers was the all star panel protecting your public interest yesterday against the ever dangerous Blackie.
Remember, in a past life he was an accomplished jewel thief and safecracker who later in his "career" was able to turn it around to become a highly successful private detective no less!
"Enemy to those who make him an enemy ..... friend to those who have no friend - that's our beloved Blackie!"Sincerely
Clare L. Pieuk
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