February 5, 2011 Straight.com
Former West Vancouver police chief Kash Heed's decision to enter provincial politics in 2009 has ended up casting a pall on the careers of a growing number of people. Members of his campaign team, including high-profile political organizer Barinder Sall, are facing criminal charges.
............... to justify this decision, the society stated: "The review panel, consisting of public representatives Claude Richmond and Peter B. Lloyd and senior lawyer Richard Stewart, QC, was satisfied Robertson understood the significant error in judgment he made and accepted his statement that he deeply regrets the damage his error made to the confidence in the role of special prosecutors and to Heed."
In case you're wondering, that's the same Claude Richmond who was the employment and income assistance minister in the last Gordon Campbell government. After his political career ended, he was appointed as a "lay bencher" on the law society board.
The law society, as much as anyone, should know that justice must not only be done, but it must be seen to be done. Despite this, it placed a former BC Liberal cabinet heavyweight on the panel that made this recommendation for a conduct review for Robertson for not disclosing a contribution to the campaign of another former BC Liberal cabinet minister.
This decision, with Richmond's active input, ensures that the former special prosecutor's handling of the Heed case will not stay in the news through a messy and expensive hearing attended by the media—which could have undermined the BC Liberal government's efforts to get re-elected .....................
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