Court documents - authorities and pleadings on behalf of Hon. Sue Hammell and Hon. Graeme Bowbrick
- RBSC-ARC-1394-355-11
- File
- April 17, 2000
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Court documents - authorities and pleadings on behalf of Hon. Sue Hammell and Hon. Graeme Bowbrick
Court documents - various closing arguments and related material
Includes several "Notes for Reply" of the respondents to the petitioner's final argument, as well as a copy of the petitioner's sur-rebuttal, and other related documents.
File documents - Friesen v. Hammell
Contains copies of correspondence, drafts, memos, court submissions, notes, media clippings, and other related material.
Court documents - "will say" statements of the petitioners
Contains a trial agenda, Thursday April 13, 2000; the "will say" statements of Leonard Friesen, Holly Kuzenko, and Mildred Umbarger; and notes for the cross-examination of Holly Kuzenko.
Smith Commission document book 2 - NCHS Charities Society
Smith Commission document book 5 - Nanaimo NDP Association
Smith Commission document book 14 - Society Act Section 85 Investigation
Smith Commission document book 24 - Kinsey Report - allegation 7
Smith Commission document book 28 - documents regarding evidence of Carl Bolton
Smith Commission document book 37 - documents regarding evidence of E.H. Hintz
Smith Commission document book 36 - documents regarding evidence of E.H. Hintz
Smith Commission document book 46B - documents regarding evidence of Harry Hackwood
Smith Commission document book 48A - documents regarding evidence of Marjorie Boggis
Smith Commission document book 49 - documents regarding evidence of Phyllis Milliken
Smith Commission document book 50 - documents regarding evidence of Ted Miller
Smith Commission document book 52 - documents regarding evidence of Frank Murphy
Smith Commission document book 62 - documents pertaining to evidence of Patrice Pratt
Smith Commission document book 63A - documents regarding evidence of Elizabeth Marlow
Smith Commission document book 63B - documents regarding evidence of Elizabeth Marlow
Smith Commission document book 67 - documents regarding evidence of Jacques Carpentier
Smith Commission document book 68 - documents regarding evidence of Rick Lawson
Smith Commission document book 70A - documents regarding evidence of Rick Boyarski
Smith Commission document book 77 - documents regarding evidence of Bill Bennett
Smith Commission document book 80B - documents regarding evidence of Brian Smith
Smith Commission document book 90 - documents regarding evidence of Linda Morrison
Smith Commission - unbound exhibits # 194-204
Smith Commission - unbound exhibits # 230-240
Ramsey v. Pacific Press - argument of CKPG and Ben Meisner
Fundraising reports - election fundraising committee
Election Fundraising Committee
Federal - EPC steering committee
Federal election candidate biographies
Federal election communications binder 2 - candidates
Contains BC federal candidate biographies, as well as relevant news clippings, public communications, and promotional materials.
Files related to the David Stockell case
Records included in this subseries relate to a provincial court case, known as Friesen v. Hammell, brought against three NDP MLA’s, Premier Glen Clark, and the NDP itself, in which the respondents were accused of electoral fraud. The case took place from late 1996, moving through various appeals until August 2000, when it was finally overturned and the original respondents were acquitted.
Shortly before the dropping of the writ for the May 28, 1996 provincial election in British Columbia, then Minister of Finance Elizabeth Cull tabled a pre-election balanced budget in the legislature, on which incumbent NDP candidate Glen Clark campaigned, claiming it was an example of the NDP’s sound fiscal management. While the NDP narrowly lost the popular vote with 39.45% to the Liberal’s 41.82%, the party succeeded in securing 39 seats to the Liberal’s 33, and Glen Clark renewed his mandate as Premier. Shortly after the election however, newly appointed Finance Minister Andrew Petter completed a budgetary review, and concluded that in fact, the budget for 1996 would not be balanced, contradicting the projections that Cull had tabled before the election for the 1995/96 and 1996/97 budgets. This sparked public controversy, and the media began referring to the episode as the “Fudge-it Budget” scandal. Following this, David Stockell, a resident of Kelowna, founded a group called HELP BC (an acronym for Help Eradicate Lying Politicians) with the intention of launching a court case against the Clark and the New Democratic Party, claiming the party had defrauded voters. The group received funding for its case from the National Citizen’s Coalition (NCC), a conservative lobby group with a strong base in Alberta, and political support from the BC Liberals and others. David Stockell had in fact voted Liberal in the 1996 election and therefore could not name himself as a petitioner in the court case; instead, HELP BC began an outreach campaign to ask members of the public who had voted for the NDP on the basis of its budgetary promises to step forward as petitioners. Three British Columbians from different ridings were identified: Leonard Friesen of the Surrey Green Timbers riding, Holly Kuzenko of New Westminster, and Mildred Umbarger of Rossland Trail. The initial court case was brought forward as a class proceeding, against not only the MLA’s of each riding (Sue Hammell of Surrey Green Timbers, Graeme Bowbrick of New Westminster, and Ed Conroy of Rossland Trail), but also all electoral district MLA’s, electoral officers, Glen Clark, and the NDP itself. The trial began at the end of 1996, and proceeded through various appeals, with the NDP and other respondents eventually being dismissed from the proceedings except for the three MLA’s initially named – though in January 1999, the BC Court of Appeals ruled that the case could go to full trial in the British Columbia Supreme Court. In August of 2000 however, the case was finally thrown out, and the respondents acquitted.
Records include court documents, drafts and research notes, correspondence, media clippings and transcripts, opinion polls, and other related materials.
March 2000 correspondence and court documents
Contains correspondence between the various law firms engaged to represent NDP members and the Provincial Secretary, other party members, and other law firms; drafts and copies of legal documents; public communications and other publicity related to the case.
Court documents - bound copies of submissions
Contains two bound books of court documents - 1) "Brief of Documents of the Respondents, Except Dale Lovick and the New Democratic Party" contains petitions and notices of motion filed 1996-1997; 2) "Submissions of the Amicus Curiae on the Issue of Cabinet Privilege/Public Interest Immunity", submitted April 2000.
Documents from the petitioners - Part I of the petitioner's list
Contains copies of documents submitted by the petitioners, including news clippings, Hansard transcripts, and government documents related to the 1996 provincial budget.
Reply argument - Friesen v. Hammell
Contains draft court documents, including "Notes for Submissions on Behalf of the Respondents Hon. Sue Hammell and Hon. Graeme Bowbrick, Final Argument"; a summary of the appeal proceedings put forward by Hammell, Bowbrick and others (December 1998 - January 1999) copied from the British Columbia Law Reports; other related materials.
Court documents - brief of authorities - adverse and hostile witnesses to be cross-examnined
Contains invoices from the various legal representatives to the NDP for services rendered.
Contains media clippings, correspondence, and research related to the David Stockell lawsuit.