Defendant's Closing Submissions
No. S-090663 Vancouver Registry IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BETWEEN: CAMBIE SURGERIES CORPORATION, CHRIS CHIAVATTI, MANDY MARTENS, KRYSTIANA CORRADO, WALID KHALFALLAH by his litigation guardian DEBBIE WAITKUS, and SPECIALIST REFERRAL CLINIC (VANCOUVER) INC. PLAINTIFFS AND: ATTORNEY GENERAL OF BRITISH COLUMBIA DEFENDANT AND: DR. DUNCAN ETCHES, DR. ROBERT WOOLLARD, GLYN TOWNSON, THOMAS McGREGOR, BRITISH COLUMBIA FRIENDS OF MEDICARE SOCIETY, CANADIAN DOCTORS FOR MEDICARE, MARIËL SCHOOFF, JOYCE HAMER, MYRNA ALLISON, and the BRITISH COLUMBIA ANESTHESIOLOGISTS’ SOCIETY INTERVENORS AND: ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CANADA PURSUANT TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION ACT DEFENDANT’S CLOSING SUBMISSIONS Jonathan Penner and Jacqueline Hughes Peter A. Gall, Q.C. and Robert Grant, Q.C. For the Defendant For the Plaintiffs Ministry of Attorney General Gall Legge Grant Zwack Legal Services Branch 1000 – 1199 West Hastings Street, 1001 Douglas Street Vancouver, BC V6E 3T5 Victoria BC V8W 2C5 Telephone: 250-952-0122 Telephone: 604-669-0011 Facsimile: 250-356-9154 Facsimile: 604-669-5101 Ken Manning Joseph J. Arvay, Q.C. For the Attorney General of Canada For the Coalition Intervenors Department of Justice, Vancouver 1512 - 808 Nelson Street 900 – 840 Howe Street Box 12149 Nelson Square Vancouver BC V6Z 2S9 Vancouver BC V6Z 2H2 Telephone: 604-696-9828 Telephone: 604-666-6731 Facsimile: 888-575-3281 Facsimile: 604-666-1585 Derek Knoeckel and James Gould Dr. Roland Orfaly For the Patient Intervenors For Intervenor “BCAS” HHBG LAWYERS – Vancouver BRITISH COLUMBIA 1918 – 1030 West Georgia Street ANESTHESIOLOGISTS’ SOCIETY Vancouver BC V6E 2Y3 350- 555 Sixth Street New Westminster BC V3L 5H1 Telephone: 604-696-0556 Telephone: 604-553-0040 Facsimile: 604-6380614 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1 - OVERVIEW 1 1.1 FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS WITH THE PLAINTIFFS’ CLAIM ......................................................
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