UP AND DOWN

Re ‘Ghomeshi’ Amendments Are Worth Keeping and The Supreme Court Has Failed In Its Basic Duty To Preserve Fair Trials (July 5): As a victim of multiple incidents of sexual abuse, my soul initially soared with the lauded “Ghomeshi” amendments. Yet on the same page, my heart plunged in response to the legal opinion expressing a troubling fault in the Supreme Court of Canada’s basic duty of care to provide fair trials, the implication being that it extends well beyond the sexual to other cases.

Our fragile, frightening world seems to have arrived at a station where legal balance, under the guise of fairness and privacy, can bend to an insinuating and relentless social media.

Marian Kingsmill Hamilton