Judge threatens to eject defence lawyer on opening of BC Rail trial

Wed May 19, 2010

The Globe and Mail

A long-awaited political corruption trial finally got under way in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Tuesday, with moments of legal drama when the judge threatened to have a defence lawyer ejected.

After Kevin McCullough, a lawyer for one of three former government employees facing a battery of charges, rose to interrupt the Crown’s opening remarks, Madam Justice Anne MacKenzie bluntly told him to sit down and be quiet.

“You will not argue,” she told Mr. McCullough, who is representing Bobby Virk. “You have improperly interrupted . . . you will remain seated or you will be removed from the court by the sheriff.”

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