Court throws media a bone

The search warrant information from the aftermath of the 2003 B.C. Legislature raids should be available this afternoon.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Bennett authorized the release of information on four subsequent 2004 raids this week, but it's taken three days just to transcribe her eight-page ruling.

In the mean time, that ruling has been released. Click here to download a PDF copy.

Whatever information is eventually released will be edited. Around 24 paragraphs of information will be severed until after witnesses testify or until after the trial is over. That includes about nine paragraphs on Erik Bornman and Brian Kieran, whose Liberal-connected P.R. firm was raided as part of the investigation.

Kieran, the former political columnist, last week announced he would be preparing for retirement by lightening his responsibilities at K&E.

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