Truscott Hearing on Video

As most of our readers will know, the Ontario Court of Appeal hearing of the Steven Truscott matter is being broadcast live via CBC TV. In addition to the live feed there are also recordings available of the prior days’ hearings.

The CBC has done an absolutely splendid job of providing the interested viewer with all of the information necessary to understand the hearing, even supplying the appellant’s compendium and an index to it, so that viewer’s can follow along as the court is referred to parts of it. There are backgrounders, including a link to The Fifth Estate’s program on Truscott, and a list of key people in the original case and the lawyers along with explanations about who’s who. This is how it should be done.

Can this much effort be put into future videos of hearings? I doubt it. Which likely means that the audience for this venture into cameras in courts will be small indeed, probably what the government had in mind when they picked the Court of Appeal as the first place to experiment.

(By the way, note the visible laptop monitor in the lower right of the picture: it might be something to bear in mind that monitors can now be monitored, so watch what you watch…)