Cape Breton Post

Judge off cases pending review

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OTTAWA — The Federal Court says a judge who once asked a sexual assault victim why she couldn’t keep her knees together will not be hearing cases until further notice. The court decided earlier this month that Justice Robin Camp would not be handling cases involving sexual issues, pending a review of a trial he heard last year when he was a provincial court judge in Alberta. The judge acquitted a man of sexually assaulting a 19-yearold woman but the verdict was overturned on appeal. Complaints were launched against Camp’s trial remarks, saying they showed the judge was sexist and disrespect­ful of the woman and disregarde­d the law.

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