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Phoenix Sinclair inquiry could resume next month
Phoenix Sinclair (HANDOUT PHOTO)
An inquiry into the death of a five-year-old girl in care can resume now that another legal battle stalling the proceedings has ended
Manitoba's Court of Appeal ruled Monday that witness interview transcripts do not have to be fully disclosed to all the parties and interveners involved in the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry.
Three days after it began in September, the court halted the inquiry into the death of the little girl to hear arguments over whether witness interviews should be fully disclosed.
Several child welfare authorities fought the decision by inquiry commissioner Ted Hughes to give them only summaries of the commission's pre-inquiry interviews with the 140 or so witnesses who are to testify. They asked the Court of Appeal to grant them the full transcripts. On Monday the Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled the full witness interview transcripts do not have to be disclosed.
The inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair has been examining how the girl fell through the cracks of the province's child welfare system. She was beaten to death in 2005 by her mother and mother's boyfriend, months after child welfare workers removed her from a foster home and gave her back to her family.
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