Convoy organizer Tamara Leach’s attempt to appeal the bail conditions won a procedural victory on Wednesday.
Leach’s lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, said on April 20 that the judge had made several mistakes in imposing certain conditions on her bail.
Greenspan wants to make that argument in the Ontario Supreme Court, but the Crown says the law does not allow a Supreme Court judge to reconsider another Supreme Court judge’s decision.
After hearing the arguments, Judge Julian Parfett sided with Greenspan in a ruling Wednesday.
She said in her ruling that the law requires that no accused person be denied reasonable bail without good reason and that “significantly restricting access to a review would be contrary to that right.”
“An important purpose of bail provisions is to respond to the changing situation that is common for prosecutors as they make their way through the judiciary.”
Now Greenspan will probably argue that there were mistakes in the law when Leach received bail. He is expected to insist on allowing Leach more access to social media while on bail.
Leach, 49, helped raise millions of dollars in support of the freedom convoy before he was arrested on Feb. 17 and charged with advising him to commit mischief shortly before heavy police pressure cleared the remaining protesters who occupied streets in downtown Ottawa. .
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