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The process of discovery, where the
SRA lawyer seeks to obtain information from the Government to support our
Claim, has now ended. On March 7, 2008, the last face to face questioning of
Mr. Brian Smith, the Government's designated person, to answer these questions
and provide information, took place. While Mr. Smith was not able to provide
answers to every question, he did undertake to provide answers to as many of the
questions he could and as soon as possible. Our lawyers agreed that any further
information could be exchanged via letter or email and that further face to
face meetings with Mr. Smith and the Government lawyer would not be required.
In the course of this last discovery with Mr. Smith, we were advised that the
Government lawyer, Mr. Don McKillop, was retiring and a new Government lawyer
would be assuming responsibility for the case. The Government has now appointed
Mr. Darryl Brown as their legal representative. He now wishes to once more go
through the discovery process with SRA's three Plaintiffs, namely, Frank May,
Ron Reavley and Alf Zimmerman. We anticipate that these Discoveries will take
place in early April. Once this is completed the next step is a pre-trial
Conference with the judge, leading to
- negotiations or
- trial
As you can see the lawsuit is moving ahead, albeit slower than we would like.
BUT the end is in sight, so don't lose
Heart, WE WILL PERSEVERE.
At the same time we are still hoping the current Government will sit down with
us to negotiate the issues we have presented to them, so as to avoid the matter having to be dealt with by the courts.
Please check our website for future updates.
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