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Cameras compatible with justice

Provincial court Judge Tim Preston on Friday decided there will be no cameras in his courtroom when the inquest into the death of 45-year-old Brian Sinclair begins. To allow them, Judge Preston said, may compromise "fairness, dignity, decorum and privacy" in the court. The judge was protective of the privacy ...

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