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Authority on extradition, wrongful conviction and dangerous offender law

Born
Gary Norman Botting

(1943-07-19) 19 July 1943 (age 79)
Frilford Heath, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish and Canadian (dual)
CitizenshipCanadian
EducationStudied at Trent University (B.A.), Memorial University of Newfoundland (M.A.), University of Alberta (Ph.D., M.F.A.), University of Calgary (LL.B./J.D.), University of British Columbia (LL.M., Ph.D.)
Alma materTrent University
Occupation(s)Lawyer (retired), legal scholar, journalist, playwright, novelist, poet
Years active1961–
Employer(s)South China Morning Post, Peterborough Examiner, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Simon Fraser University, University of Washington, University of British Columbia
Known forAppellate lawyer with expertise in extradition and dangerous offenders; critic of Jehovah's Witnesses; plays; poetry
Notable workThe Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses, Fundamental Freedoms and Jehovah's Witnesses, Wrongful Conviction in Canadian Law, Extradition between Canada and the United States, Canadian Extradition Law Practice, Campbell's Kids (novel), Crazy Gran (novel)
Spouse(s)Heather Harden (1966–2000); Virginia ("Ginny") Martin (2011–)
Children4
AwardsU.S. National Science Fair – International; U.S. National Academy of Sciences; American Institute of Biological Sciences; Alberta Culture playwriting awards; University of British Columbia Paetzold Fellow; Canada Council postdoctoral fellowships (law); Trent University distinguished alumni award (2015)

Gary Norman Arthur Botting, born 19 July 1943, is a Canadian legal scholar and criminal defense lawyer (now retired) as well as a poet, playwright, novelist, and critic of literature and religion, in particular Jehovah's Witnesses. The author of 40 published books, he remains one of the country's leading authorities on extradition law. He is said to have had "more experience in battling the extradition system than any other Canadian lawyer."

Early life

Botting was born in Oakley House near Royal Air Force Station Abingdon (RAF Abingdon) at Frilford Heath near Oxford, England on 19 July 1943. He was christened in the Church of England Parish Church of St. James the Great in Radley, Berkshire. His father, Pilot Officer Norman Arthur Botting DFC, a Dam Buster with 617 Squadron, was killed in action over Germany on 15 September 1943 when Gary was less than two months old—on his older sister Mavis' second birthday. Following the war, their mother Joan, a teacher, took up residence with Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, the father of their younger sister, Elizabeth, at Gumley Hall near Bedford Gardens, Market Harborough, Leicestershire and later she and the children moved with Cheshire to LeCourt, the name of the mansion he had acquired from his aunt in Hampshire. After witnessing the bombing of Nagasaki at the end of World War II, Cheshire, who had been raised high Anglican, began to examine various religions. Joan and he agreed about the nature of God as a person. Joan was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness in September 1948 and expected Cheshire to follow; when he converted to Roman Catholicism later that year instead, she moved with the children back to Radley.

Botting attended the Church of England Primary School in Radley. One day when pedaling back from school he found a large sphinx moth, "a rare and portentous Death's-Head Hawk (Acherontia atropos)" at the side of the road. Later, in Cambridge, he began collecting moths in earnest. On Elizabeth's eighth birthday, 8 January 1954, the Botting family arrived in Fort Erie, Ontario as immigrants to Canada.

Entomology

In his early teens Botting began to experiment at home with the hybridization of moths, developing his own technique entailing surgical transplantation of female pheromonal scent sacs. Exhibits of his hybrid moths won top honours at the Ontario (Canada) and United States National Science Fairs two years in a row—in 1960 for "Interesting Variations of the Cynthia Silk Moth", and in 1961 for "Intergeneric Hybridization Among Giant Silk Moths". In particular, he cross-bred the North American Polyphemus moth (then called Telea polyphemus) with Japanese and Indian giant silk moths of the genus Antheraea, pointing out that the Polyphemus moth really belonged to that genus. The Polyphemus moth was subsequently renamed Antheraea polyphemus to accord with his observations.

In the summer of 1960 he was sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences on a lecture tour of the US to explicate his experiments. Later that year the US National Academy of Sciences sponsored him on a lecture tour of India. While in India in January 1961, Botting was befriended by J. B. S. Haldane, who decades earlier had applied statistical research to the natural selection of moths. In the 1960s, Haldane's wife, Helen Spurway, was also researching the genetics of giant silk moths of the genus Antheraea. Helen Spurway, J.B.S. and Krishna Dronamraju were present at the Oberoi Grand Hotel in Kolkata when 1960 US National Science Fair winner in botany Susan Brown reminded the Haldanes that she and Botting had a previously scheduled event that would prevent them from accepting an invitation to a banquet proposed by J.B.S. and Helen in their honour and scheduled for that evening. After the two students had left the hotel, Haldane went on his much-publicized hunger strike to protest what he regarded as a "U.S. insult". Six decades later, Botting's January 1961 encounter with Haldane and their conversations regarding the peppered moth are still generating controversy, even in the pages of the revered Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Botting received the US National Pest Control Award when he demonstrated that his experiments had practical applications beyond producing finer silk. In 1964 he experimented with feeding caterpillars juvenile hormones and vitamin B12 to keep Luna moths (Actias luna) and cecropia moths (Hyalophora cecropia) in the larval stage an instar longer than normal, resulting in larger cocoons and larger adult moths.

Religion

Botting was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. At age five, with his sister Mavis (then seven), Botting began going from house to house distributing The Watchtower and Awake!, and the following year gave his first sermon about "Noah and the Ark" at the Cambridgeshire Labour Hall in Cambridge, England. Mavis and Gary attended the semi-official Theodena Kingdom Boarding School in Suffolk, run by Rhoda Ford, the sister of Percy Ford, at that time the head of Jehovah's Witnesses in Great Britain. Botting later documented the harsh discipline by caning meted out to him at the hands of Ms. Ford, who had set up the school in defiance of Thorpeness bylaws; he ran away from school, and contracted double pneumonia. As a result of his mother's intervention, the school was shut down, Ms. Ford was disfellowshipped from Jehovah's Witnesses, and her brother demoted. In 1953, Gary's maternal grandmother Lysbeth Turner, unimpressed by her daughter's choice of religion, attempted to expand Gary's religious horizons by introducing him to Gerald Gardner, the principal advocate of "the old religion" of Wicca to which she adhered.

Botting's lay preaching continued after his arrival in Canada at age ten. He entered the "industrial arts" (rather than "academic") stream in high school, majoring in drafting and machine shop. In July 1955, Botting was baptized as a "dedicated" Jehovah's Witness at a convention in New York City. In July 1961, Watch Tower vice-president F.W. Franz assigned Botting the task of smuggling Watchtowers and anti-Francisco Franco tracts into Spain, where Jehovah's Witnesses were banned. From 1961 to 1963, Botting volunteered in Hong Kong as a "pioneer" missionary, supporting himself by working as a journalist for the South China Morning Post. Once he returned from Hong Kong, he attended Trent University to study literature and philosophy. In 1965, the Peterborough Examiner published a full-page editorial on Botting's personal dilemma, "Evolution and the Bible: Faith in Science or Faith in God a Choice for Man." Botting later admitted that his discussions with Haldane in India in 1961 had had a profound effect on his way of looking at the world, although the process of shaking the social imperatives imposed by his religion took decades.

Disenchanted with organized Christian religion in general and Jehovah's Witnesses in particular, in 1975 Botting wrote a semi-autobiographical poem sequence satirizing his experiences as a missionary and the fact that Armageddon had not arrived by October 1975 as Jehovah's Witnesses had predicted. His play Whatever Happened to Saint Joanne? (1982) depicted the existential struggle and moral dilemma of leaving a fundamentalist sect. Another of his plays first produced by the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta depicted the forming of a covenstead in which the protagonist priestess rejects her fundamentalist background and protects herself and those she loves with charms, spells and rituals.

In 1984, Gary and Heather Botting co-authored The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses, an exposé of the inner workings, shifting doctrines, linguistic quirks and "mental regulating" of members of the group. It graphically compared the religion's closed social paradigms to the "Newspeak" and thought control depicted in Orwell's novel. The book sold out its first edition of 5000 copies within weeks of its release. In 1993, Botting published Fundamental Freedoms and Jehovah's Witnesses, an academic work about Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada and their role in pressing for the development of the Canadian Bill of Rights and what eventually became the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

By 1982 Botting had accepted Darwinian evolution as undeniable fact. At the same time, he thoroughly excoriated the "Big Bang" theory, maintaining that Albert Einstein had prematurely deferred to Edwin Hubble's theory of an expanding universe rather than relying on his own calculations of 1907 in which he predicted a gravitational redshift, observable in every massive stellar or galactic body in space. Rather than regarding himself as an essentialist like Iris Murdoch or an existentialist like Jean-Paul Sartre, Botting has described himself as an extensionist: all things, including human understanding, can be explained as extensions of mind and body in space and time. Like Richard Dawkins, of whose brand of genetic theory—and unabashed atheism—Botting has been a staunch advocate, he was admittedly influenced by the observations and opinions of J. B. S. Haldane.

Journalist

In September 1961, Botting left Canada for Hong Kong initially to become a missionary for Jehovah's Witnesses; but he had to support himself, and soon became first a proofreader and then a full-time reporter for the South China Morning Post. This led to many adventures which he chronicled in his serialized Occupational Hazard: The Adventures of a Journalist. Soon journalism became a priority and he became one of the main feature writers for the South China Sunday Post-Herald. He returned to Canada and in 1964 began to work for the Peterborough Examiner, then owned by Robertson Davies, at the same time attending Trent University, where he was editor of the student newspaper, Trent Trends, and literary magazine, Tridentine. He became fast friends with Farley Mowat and wrote several features about the popular author, describing their shared escapades on The Happy Adventure ("The Boat that Wouldn't Float"), including speculation as to whether sharks had invaded Lake Ontario via the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway. As an investigative reporter, in 1966 Botting opted to serve time in jail rather than pay parking fines so that he could write an exposé on security and sanitation problems at the notorious Victoria County Jail in Ontario—eventually forcing the prison to close. His later work of popular history, Chief Smallboy: In Pursuit of Freedom, published in 2005 by Fifth House Books, discusses the life of mid-twentieth century Cree leader Bobtail ("Bob") Smallboy of the Ermineskin Cree Nation. Laurie Meijer-Drees, writing for The Canadian Historical Review, praised the book for its use of oral history and family history in shedding more light on its subject, but criticized its portrayal of Smallboy as a "lone leader" with few peers and in particular its failure to put Smallboy in context with major First Nations political movements of the time such as the Indian Association of Alberta.

Poet

Commencing in the 1960s, Botting published poetry in various literary magazines including Casserole, Hecate's Loom, Issue, Legal Studies Forum, New Thursday, Tridentine—and Umwelt, a Canadian literary magazine which he later satirized in BumweltS: Poems Written in Sexy '69. His third collection of poems, Streaking! (1974) helped popularize that fad in Canada. Monomonster in Hell (1975) —based loosely on Botting's experiences as a missionary in Hong Kong—satirizes the failed prophecy of Jehovah's Witnesses, who had anticipated that Armageddon would come by October 2, 1975. Freckled Blue (1976), Lady Godiva on a Plaster Horse (1977) and Lady of My House (1986) are collections of love poems which explore different poetic forms from experimental and concrete poetry to more conventional sonnets and ballads. His complete published poems, including a risqué assortment that appeared in a limited edition of Isabeau: Poems of Lust and Love (2013), were gathered together in Streaking! The Collected Poems of Gary Botting (2014), edited by screenwriter Tihemme Gagnon.

Playwright

Beginning as playwright in residence with People & Puppets Incorporated in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1970s, Botting wrote some 30 plays, a dozen of which received awards from the governments of both Canada and Alberta as well as private sponsors such as the Edmonton Journal. He first became active in theatre in the 1960s, when he acted in Academy Theatre and Peterborough Theatre Guild productions in Ontario, Canada. In the late 1960s, he became a theatre and movie critic for the Peterborough Examiner; his essays on and reviews of contemporary Off-Off-Broadway productions were collected in his critique The Theatre of Protest in America.

His first play, written in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1969, was The School of Night, later published as the award-winning Harriott!, about the occult club formed in the 1590s by Thomas Harriott, Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh. The School of Night and Who Has Seen the Scroll? were first produced in Ontario in 1969–70. Prometheus Rebound, written for the Open Theatre in St. John's, Newfoundland in 1969, was first produced by People & Puppets Incorporated in Edmonton, Alberta in 1971. A sequel to the dramatic poems of Aeschylus and Shelley, Botting's version of the myth portrays Prometheus' punishment for granting man access to nuclear energy.

Botting studied drama, including dramaturgy, in 1971–72 as a minor for his Ph.D. in English Literature, and a decade later received the Master of Fine Arts in playwriting from University of Alberta. Several of his plays were produced by the drama department, including his thesis production, Whatever Happened to Saint Joanne?, exposing the tendency of fundamental Christian ministers to exploit promising members of their sects. Edmonton Journal theater critic Keith Ashwell called Saint Joanne an "incredibly imaginative play": "In dramatizing his experiences he has written a very disquieting piece, that becomes positively uncomfortable at the end." Botting's most popular award-winning plays were Crux (1983), about a nude woman who steadfastly refuses to be talked down out of her tree by her materialistic husband; Winston Agonistes (1984), a sequel to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four; and Fathers, first produced in a federal penitentiary by William Head on Stage in Victoria, British Columbia in 1993. Botting continues to write plays for the stage and screen.

Novelist

Botting wrote his first novel, the semi-autobiographical Through Freedom's Curtain, in Hong Kong in 1962. There, a Canadian journalist in Hong Kong, having entered Mao's China illegally to get a story on the refugee problem, finds himself imprisoned and facing serious charges. "His eventual escape is a metaphysical flight beyond the conventions of job, security and national pride. He discovers himself, but first must learn to live with the anguish of self-realization." His recent novels include Campbell's Kids (2015), set in Alberta, about an amnesiac pyromaniac who has an affair with a cheating journalist; and Crazy Gran (2016), set in upstate New York, where in the week after 9/11 the protagonist discovers, to her peril, that her Syrian uncle helped plan the attacks on the World Trade Centre.

Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing

Botting graduated with a B.A. from Trent University with a joint major in philosophy and English literature, then obtained his Master of Arts degree in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland, where his focus was largely on Shakespearean authorship and textual criticism, proposing that William Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford. He received his PhD in English literature and Master of Fine Arts in drama (playwriting) from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where he taught English literature at the University of Alberta and was producer and playwright-in-residence for People & Puppets Incorporated and Edmonton Summer Theatre—precursors to the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Botting's PhD dissertation was on William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies. From 1972 to 1986 Botting taught English and creative writing at Red Deer College, where he was at various times the college's media relations coordinator, chairman of the English department, editor-in-chief of Red Deer College Press, and president of the Faculty Association. He was later remembered by college librarian and fellow thespian Paul Boultbee (who had acted in Botting's plays Crux (1983) and Winston Agonistes (1984)) as being a "creative, rebellious faculty member." Be that as it may, Botting was named "Citizen of the Year" by the Central Alberta Allied Arts Council on 5 May 1984.

In the 1970s, Botting was vice-president of Central Alberta Theatre, sat on the executive of the Literary Presses Group and the Canadian Publishers Association, and was founding president of the Alberta Publishers Association. He taught English and creative writing at Maskwachees Cultural College in Hobbema, establishment of which he had initially proposed in the early 1970s. While first setting up his law practice in Victoria in the early 1990s he taught creative writing and English literature at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

In 1985, Botting came to national attention when he warned of a threat to academic freedom after James Keegstra was fired from his job and criminally charged with spreading hatred against an identifiable group. Keegstra had been hired as an auto mechanics teacher at Eckville High School in Alberta, but after he took a university history course was deemed qualified to teach Grade 10 history, on which "the Holocaust" was on the curriculum. Keegstra used his own texts (including the notorious The Hoax of the Twentieth Century) to teach his students that the Holocaust had been exaggerated. Not only was Keegstra fired and then prosecuted, but the RCMP removed copies of the offending texts from libraries, including University of Calgary Library. Botting objected to the move in a widely-recirculated letter to the Calgary Herald. That letter brought Botting to the attention of Keegstra's Victoria lawyer, Doug Christie, who enlisted the "outspoken civil libertarian" as an expert witness at both the Ernst Zundel trial in Toronto and the Keegstra trial in Red Deer, Alberta. Botting had conducted a survey demonstrating that Keegstra could not get a fair trial in Red Deer because of pretrial publicity. The Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the judge should have allowed Botting's evidence to be heard, and ordered a new trial. Later, Botting became the first recipient of the George Orwell Free Speech Award. In 1986, he resigned as professor of English at Red Deer College and entered law school. He eventually articled for Christie in Victoria, from where he "signed off" on Keegstra's appeal factum to the Supreme Court of Canada, and worked on several other of Christie's most notorious cases, at the same time continuing to teach English literature and creative writing at Simon Fraser University. However, once he was called to the bar, he went to great lengths to distance himself from Christie.

Lawyer

Botting entered the University of Calgary Faculty of Law on a Brunet scholarship in 1987. Shortly afterwards he joined the staff of the Institute of Natural Resources Law as a legal researcher. He was elected vice-president of Victims of Law Dilemma (VOLD), an independent watchdog group designed to keep lawyers responsible and to pressure Canadian law societies to appoint lay benchers. As a first-year law student he represented Joel Slater, an American man who became stateless after renouncing US citizenship. When he was in second year, the Law Society of Alberta "investigated" Botting for representing Howard Pursley, an alleged white supremacist refugee claimant who was eventually flown directly from Calgary to Texas in a form of disguised extradition later known as extraordinary rendition. Botting was cleared of any wrongdoing. In his third year, Botting was enlisted by Calgary lawyers Don McLeod and Noel O'Brien to assist them with research in connection with the extradition of Charles Ng—who faced the death penalty for allegedly murdering as many as 25 men, women and children in California. That year Botting also represented the first dozen Chinese students in Canada to be granted refugee status after they publicly protested China's 1989 clampdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. After graduating in 1990, Botting articled in Victoria for Doug Christie. Botting pioneered the use of video appearances of witnesses in jury trials before Canadian courtrooms were equipped with video machines, in one instance convincing the judge that she and the jury should move from the courthouse to a nearby hotel in Victoria, B.C. to hear the live evidence of a witness in New Brunswick.

Notable clients whom Botting has represented include Dorothy Grey-Vik, who five decades after the fact successfully sued her parents' former hired hand for repeatedly raping her, beginning when she was a prepubescent school girl, making her his "sex slave" for two years and fathering her two children (born when she was twelve and thirteen, respectively)—with her parents' complacency and complicity; Gerald Gervasoni, extradited to Florida to face trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found stuffed under her mother's bed; Patrick Kelly, an RCMP officer convicted of first degree murder for tossing his wife off a 17th story balcony in Toronto who sued the Correctional Service of Canada for negligence for housing him at Kingston Penitentiary without regard to risk arising from his previous status as a police officer; James Ernest Ponton, charged with second degree murder after shooting his victim twice in the back—who was acquitted by a jury on the basis of Botting's argument of self-defence; Clifford Edwards, for whom Botting sought a moratorium on extradition from the Minister of Justice on the grounds that the Canada-US Extradition Treaty has never been ratified by Parliament; Karlheinz Schreiber, a German-born Canadian entrepreneur who fought extradition from Canada for nearly a decade; friends of Marc Emery, a cannabis policy reform activist who consented to his extradition to the United States; Mark Wilson, who won his 2011 extradition appeal on the basis that the extradition judge had refused to admit important evidence; the family of Dr. Asha Goel, an Ontario obstetrician murdered in her sleep while visiting her brother's house in Mumbai, India—the Canadian component of the investigation having been squelched by the Department of Justice; Emmanuel Alviar, who received a one-month jail sentence for his part in the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot in Vancouver; Sean Doak, who fought extradition to the United States for allegedly leading a drug smuggling ring while incarcerated in a federal penitentiary; Brinder Rai, a Calgary man who sued his grandfather (since deceased) and other relatives for allegedly conspiring to shoot him in the back at close range with a shotgun in an "honour killing" attempt; Donald Boutilier, for whom Botting successfully challenged the constitutionality of dangerous offender legislation in the British Columbia Supreme Court, a challenge rejected by the B.C. Court of Appeal, and subsequently appealed by Botting to the Supreme Court of Canada, which used Boutilier as a forum for substantially reforming dangerous offender law by reverting to earlier more stringent standards for designating dangerous offenders; Safa Malakpour, whose indeterminate sentence as a dangerous offender for harassing his wife after the harassment escalated to kidnapping and assault was reduced to a long-term offender designation on the basis of Boutilier; Kevin Patterson, who faces extradition for murder after allegedly killing his mentor with a garden shovel; and Gregory Hiles, charged with attempted murder, against whom the Crown stayed charges for lack of evidence after Botting's cross-examination of several witnesses in the first three days of a scheduled three-week trial demonstrated that each witness had motive and opportunity to commit the crime.

Legal scholar

Long a strong advocate of advanced education for practicing lawyers, Botting completed his Master of Laws in 1999 and a second PhD, in law, in 2004 at the University of British Columbia, and went on to publish a number of scholarly works on Canadian and international law. He was recognized as "Canada's leading legal scholar on extradition law" by Larry Rousseau, executive vice president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. His U.S.-published Extradition between Canada and the United States, cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, criticized Canada's level of cooperation with the United States in international criminal matters, arguing that Canada's policy of placing international comity over individual rights had dangerously expanded executive discretion and damaged human rights protections. The book received favourable reviews in the Law & Politics Book Review and the Revue québécoise de droit international. Another of his works on extradition law, Canadian Extradition Law Practice, which has gone through five editions, contains broader criticisms of Canada's network of extradition treaties, in particular of the erosion of the double criminality requirement. His Extradition: Individual Rights vs. International Obligations, published in Stuttgart, Germany, was released in 2010, and Halbury's Laws of Canada: Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance the following year. His Wrongful Conviction in Canadian Law (2010) examines Canadian commissions of inquiry into miscarriage of justice. The book's foreword was written by David Milgaard, who was convicted of a murder he did not commit and spent 23 years in prison. Botting spent four years as a visiting scholar and post-doctoral fellow at University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and another year as research associate at the University of British Columbia – where he is a Paetzold Fellow – before returning to private practice in British Columbia in 2009. In April 2015 he was granted a Trent University Distinguished Alumnus lifetime achievement award for his legal scholarship and literary skills. The citation noted that Botting "is recognized as one of the most prolific legal scholars in Canada, the 'go to' expert in Canada on extradition, and a writer of immense talent." In 2016 and again in 2017 he was invited to join an exclusive Oxford think-tank deliberating on the future of extradition and the European arrest warrant in the wake of Brexit. He proposed "a single, simple multilateral extradition treaty to replace the European arrest warrant and the thousands of variable, and mostly unworkable, bilateral treaties now in existence." He called the proposed treaty the "Unified Multilateral Extradition Treaty" or UMET, and stated that half the countries of the world would already qualify to "sign on" by virtue of being signatories to current treaty arrangements. "The other half could sign onto the new UMET in due course, once they met specific minimal standards of justice, including protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms." His most recent legal texts are Dangerous Offender Law and Canadian Extradition Law.

Personal life

Botting has four children by his first wife, Dr Heather Botting. They were divorced in 1999. In 2011, Botting married Australian-Canadian speech language pathologist Virginia ("Ginny") Martin. Now retired from active practise, he continues to write novels and legal texts.

Published Law-Related Books

Gary Botting, Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Markham: LexisNexis, 2010).
Gary Botting, Wrongful Conviction in Canadian Law (Markham: Butterworths LexisNexis, 2010). Order a copy
Gary Botting et al., Criminal Essentials (Markham: LexisNexis Quicklaw, 2010) (online version of Canadian Extradition Law Practice included passim as text).
Gary Botting et al., CriminalPractice. Markham: LexisNexis, 2008.
Canadian Extradition Law Practice 2007. Markham: Butterworths LexisNexis, 2007.
Chief Smallboy: In Pursuit of Freedom. Calgary: Fifth House, 2005.
Extradition Between Canada and the United States. Ardsley, NY: Transnational, 2005.
Canadian Extradition Law Practice 2005. Markham: Butterworths LexisNexis, 2005.
Leadership: An Anthology. (co-authored with M.E. Symons) Victoria: Royal Roads University, 1997.
Fundamental Freedoms and Jehovah's Witnesses. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1993.
The Orwellian World of Jehovah’s Witnesses. (co-authored with Heather Botting) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.

Papers

* indicates juried

Dodging the Tumbling Walls: Extradition in a World Without Borders, Guest Presenter, Annual U.B.C. Conference for Graduate Students in Law, 20 May 2009.
Four Shaky Pillars: 'Evidence' and 'Factual Innocence' in the Steven Truscott Case. Paper presented as guest lecture at Faculty of Law, U.B.C. on 23 February 2008.
Imasees' Long Flight to Freedom, Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1 June 2007.*
Degrees of Innocence, Bridging Law's Communities, Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 30, 2007.*
First Nations Land Claims to the Mountains of Banff and Jasper National Parks: The Merit of the Arguments of Cree Chief Bobtail Smallboy, Legal Intersections, Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Conference, 75th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto, May 31-June 3, 2006.*
Far from the Madding Metropolis: The Claim of Chief Bobtail Smallboy to the Mountains of Banff and Jasper National Parks, Expanding the Polis: Law's Engagement and Location, Canadian Association of Law Teachers Conference, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, May 29-31, 2006.*
Chief Smallboy's Land Claim to Banff and Jasper National Parks: Another Nisga'a? Whose Law? Why Law? Law's Empire Interdisciplinary Conference, University of British Columbia, May 4-6, 2006.*
Assuaging the National Guilt: Deliberations on Wrongful Conviction in Canada, International Developments in the Innocence Movement, Innocence Network Conference, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, 18 March 2006.
Destination – Anywhere: The Illusion of Protected Rights and Reality of Lawful Wrongs in Canada's Extradition Act, 10th Annual U.B.C. Conference for Graduate Students in Law, 28 April 2005.
Executive and Judicial Discretion in Extradition Between Canada and the United States, Doctoral dissertation, Ph.D. in Law, University of British Columbia, 2004.
The Diminution of Individual Rights in Canadian Extradition Law, Canadian Law and Society Assn (CLSA) Annual Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 3 June 2004.*
The Confluence of Extradition Practice in Canada and the United States, Canadian Assn of Law Teachers Annual Conference, University of Manitoba, 31 May 2004.*
Transcending the Limits of Comity: Major Flaws in Canada's Extradition Act, 9th Annual University of B.C., Conference for Graduate Students in Law, 30 April 2004.
The Dynamics of Extradition Law: Executive Discretion Trumps Judicial Discretion, 8th Annual U.B.C. Conference for Graduate Students in Law, 12 May 2003.
To Extradite or Prosecute? Coping with the Diaspora of Terrorism, Conflict, Development and Peace (CODEP) Conference, University of London, London, UK, 13 June 2002.*
Racism and Abuse of Process in Extradition Proceedings, combined U.S. and Canada Law and Society Assn Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C., 1 June 2002.*
Abandoning the Rule of Law and Civil Liberties: Anti-Terrorism Legislation in Canada and the United States, The Promise of Law: Yesterday and Today Conf., U.B.C., 6 May 2002.*
Institutionalized Racism in 19th Century Canada: Sir John Beverley Robinson's Policy of Extradition, 19th Century Interdisciplinary Studies Conf., U.B.C., 23 March 2002.*
The Threat of Extradition of Alleged Terrorists from Canada to the United States since September 11, Mid-winter Conference, CLSA, U.B.C., 1 February 2002.*
Racism and Abuse of Process in Extradition Proceedings between Canada and the United States, Department of Anthropology, University of. Victoria, 27 September 2001.
Ministerial vs. Judicial Discretion in U.S. Election Law: Making Legal Sense of Bush v. Gore. Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Quebec City, 29 May 2001.*
Looking under the Rug of the Law: the Scope and Mandate of Law and Society, University of Calgary Faculty of Communications and Culture, 19 January 2001.
Introduction to Law and Society, Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA) Spring Conference, U.B.C. 25 January 2001.
The Art of Jurisprudence, CLSA Annual Conference, Lake Louise, Alberta, 2 June 2000*
Ministerial vs. Judicial Discretion, Market.Order@Law.Destabilized. York University, Toronto, 12 May 2000.*
The New Extradition Act and Its Implications, Law on the Cusp Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, 4 May 2000.*
The Roots of Sexism in Religion and the Law, U.B.C. Faculty of Law seminar, April, 2000.
Putting the Law in Its Place: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Legal Theory, U.B.C. Faculty of Law doctoral seminar, March, 2000.
Bringing Fugitives to Justice, Creating Constellations Conference, U.B.C., 1 May 1999*
Competing Imperatives: Individual Rights and International Obligations in Extradition Between Canada and the United States, Master of Laws thesis, University of British Columbia, 1999.

Early Reported Cases (1989-1999)

Gervasoni v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (1999), File No. A-440-96, Federal Court of Appeal, [1999] Fed. Ct. Appeal LEXIS 175, [1999] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 18154; [1999] A.C.W.S.J. 30349; 90 A.C.W.S. (3d) 113, [1999] F.C.J. No. 1096, [1999] A.C.F. No. 1096 (8 June 1999) (represented appellant, who faced the death penalty for alleged murder in Florida, in his extradition appeal and judicial review). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Stewart v. Canada (Minister of Justice); Stewart v. U.S.A. (1998), V03227 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1998] B.C.J. No. 3010, [1998] C.R.D.J. 61; [1998] C.R.R. LEXIS 435, 59 C.R.R. (2d) 33; [1998] W.C.B.J. LEXIS 6213; [1998] W.C.B.J. 4587; 40 W.C.B. (2d) 424; 131 C.C.C. (3d) 423; [1998] C.C.C. LEXIS 1043; 1998 B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 967, 968; [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 260 (heard 16 November 1998, decided 29 December 1998), Cumming, Donald and Mackenzie JJ.A. (represented appellant, a bank executive wanted for bank fraud, in his extradition appeal and judicial review of Minister's decision). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Jorgensen (1998), VI03177 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1998] B.C.J. No. 3052, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. J. 39. [1998] Crim. LEXIS 990; [1999] B.C.D. Crim 260 (15 December 1998) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for sexual assault). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Nguyen (1998), VI02982 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 725, 726, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 260 (8 June 1998); [1998] B.C.J. Nos. 1534, 2349 (8 and 21 September 1998) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for trafficking in heroin). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Mitchell (1998), 80379-C British Columbia Supreme Court, [1998] B.C.J. No. 2927; [1998] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 959, 960, 961; [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 270 (27 August 1998); File No. V02855 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1996] B.C.J. No 3025, [1996] W.C.B.J. LEXIS 12343; [1996] W.C.B.J. 20086; 32 W.C.B. (2d) 302 (18 September 1996) (represented appellant in dangerous offender proceedings entailing constitutional argument and judicial review of dangerous offender status). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Kelly v. Her Majesty the Queen, File No. (1998), T-1087-92 Federal Court Trial Division, [1998] F.C.J. No. 763, [1998] Fed. Ct. Trial LEXIS 844, (10 February 1998, 28 May 1998, 12 June 1998); 1994 W.C.B.J. LEXIS 3863, 3865, 3866; [1994] W.C.B.J. 18362, 18634, 18365; 24 W.C.B. (2d) 186, 278, 285; [1994] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 18257, 19135, 19141, 19160; [1994] A.C.W.S.J. 70909, 71786, 71794, 71813; 47 A.C.W.S. (3d) 943, 48 A.C.W.S. (3d) 1409, 1374, 1139, [1994] F.J.C. Nos. 742, 831, 832, 927 (3, 18 and 26 May and 14 June 1994); (penal law - represented plaintiff, a former Ontario RCMP officer, in suit and judicial review for wrongful placement in Kingston Penitentiary). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Ngoc Khanh Nguyen (1998), IMM-3461-97, Federal Court Trial Division, [1998] Fed. Ct. Trial LEXIS 563; [1998] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 65553; [1998] A.C.W.S.J, 139892; 80 A.C.W.S. (3d) 614 (7, 25, 29 May 1998) (represented applicant in judicial review of deportation order and refugee claim). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Lewis v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (1998), IMM-131-98, Federal Court Trial Division, [1998] Fed. Ct. Trial LEXIS 226; [1998] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 68451; [1998] A.C.W.S.J. 136167; 78 A.C.W.S. (3d) 563 (5 March 1998) (represented applicant in judicial review of deportation order and refugee claim). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Koehn (1998), CA V02732 British Columbia Court of Appeal; X039669 British Columbia Supreme Court, New Westminster [1998] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 541, 568, 569; [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 260, 270; [1998] B.C.J. Nos. 525, 615, 616 (7 and 19 January and 5 March 1998), 116 C.C.C. (3d) 517; [1997] C.C.C. LEXIS 1882; [1997] B.C.J. Nos. 1509, 1568, 3082, [1997] Crim. LEXIS 679, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 947, 953; [1997] B.C.D. Crim. 250, 260; [(18 June, 2 July and 4 December 1997); [1996] B.C.J. No. 2055 (18 April 1996); subnom R. v. D.W.K. [1996] B.C.J. No. 1148 (24 April 1996) (represented appellant in appeal and retrial of murder conviction). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. O'Gorman (1998), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1998] B.C.J. No. 572 (2 March 1998), [1997] B.C.J. No. 2238 (1 October 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for dangerous driving and assault with a weapon). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Quigley (1998), CA V03027 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1998] B.C.J. No. 561, [1998] W.C.B.J. LEXIS 7493; [1998] W.C. B.J. 36149; 37 W.C.B. (2d) 490; [1998] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 554, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 270 (2 March 1998) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for arson). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Burnett (1998), VI03113 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1998] B.C.J. No. 245, [1998] BC.D. Crim. LEXIS 493, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 270 (23 January 1998) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for sexual assault). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Bell (1998), VI02744 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1998] B.C.J. No. 244, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 490, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 270 (23 January 1998); [1997] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 1057, 1058; [1997] B.C.D. Crim. 260 (21 May 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for bank robbery). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Vaslot (1997), VI03138 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.J. No. 2995, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 661, 662, [1998] B.C.D. Crim. 270 (3 December 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of narcotics conviction). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. French (1997), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 732, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. 260 (29 October 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for first degree murder). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
M.(Z.) v. B. (H.E.D.) (1997), 94 4584 British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1997] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 96152; [1997] A.C.W.S.J. 138898; 76 A.C.W.S. (3d) 195; subnom McBurnie v. Bailly [1997] B.C.J. No. 2395, [1997] B.C.D. Civ, LEXIS 21667, [1998] B.C.d. Civ. 530 (24 October 1997) (represented plaintiff in civil suit for sexual assault, abduction, and division of property, including appeal of Master's rulings in the case).
Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
United States of America v. Stewart (1997), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.J. No. 2186, 120 C.C.C. (3d) 78 (3 October 1997) (extradition appeal). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Parsons (1997), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.J. No. 2051 (3 September 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for pointing a gun). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Nguyen v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (1997), Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board (28 July 1997) (represented appellant in refugee appeal hearing). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Dycko (1997), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.D. Crim LEXIS 957, [1997] B.C.D. Crim 270 (17 June 1997) (appeal of conviction for assault). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Garcia v. Rodriguez (1997), V01758 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.J. No. 1281, [1997] B.C.D. Civ. LEXIS 20304, [1997] B.C.D. Civ. 360 (20 May 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of abrogation of arrears of child support). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.

R. v. Moore (1997), British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria [1997] B.C.J. No. 817, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 1138, B.C.D. Crim. 250 (25 March 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of B.C. Provincial Court conviction of assaulting police officer, and appeal of sentence). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Grant (1997), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.J. No. 582, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 1150, [1997] B.C.D. Crim 250 (11 March 1997) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for sexual assault). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Collura (1997), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1997] B.C.J. No. 661, [1997] B.c.D. Crim. LEXIS 1169, B.C.D. Crim. 260 (4 March 1997), B.C.J. No. 2211, B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 532, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. 260 (31 October 1996) (represented appellant Collura in appeal of conviction and sentence for sexual assault). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Nguyen (1997), British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria [1997] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 1214, [1997] B.C.D. Crim. 260 (24 January 1997) (represented applicant at judicial review of constitutional question). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Dwyer (1996), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1996] B.C.J. Nos. 2068, 2347; B.C.D. Crim Sent. 7440-01, 7440-02 (19 July and 15 November 1996) (represented appellant in appeal of criminal conviction and sentence for assault). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Mitchell (1996), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1996] B.C.D. Crim LEXIS 675, 676; [1996] B.C.D. Crim. Sent. 7001-03, 7517-26 (18 September 1996) (represented appellant in constitutional challenge of dangerous offender provisions of the Criminal Code). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
V.F.A. (Re) (1996), Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board (2 July 1996) (represented Syrian appellant in refugee claim). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Kyle (1996), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1996] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 910, 911; [1996] B.C.D. Crim. Conv. 5715-01, 6108-03 (24 April 1996) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for sexual assault with a weapon and assault with a weapon). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Gervasoni v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (1996), IMM-4063-94 Federal Court Trial Division, [1996] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 86852; [1996] A.C.W.S.J. 80747; 62 A.C.W.S. (3D) 965, [1996] F.C.J. No. 475, A.C.F. No. 475 (10 April 1996); [1995] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 21131, 22132; [1995] A.C.W.S.J. 205334, 206456; 56 A.C.W.S. (3d) 350, 57 A.C.W.S. (3d) 81, [1995] F.C.J. No. 920, [1995] A.C.F. No. 920 (9 June and 20 July 1995); leave to appeal to Supreme Court of Canada refused [1996] S.C.C.A. No,. 176 (2 April 1996) (represented applicant in obtaining judicial review of extradition and restraining order against removal). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Gervasoni v. Canada (Minister of Justice) (1996), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1996] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 888, [1996] B.C.D. Crim. Conv. 5475-03 (11 March 1996) (appeal of judicial review decision regarding constitutionality of stays of proceeding to facilitate removal of undesirable alien). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Chu (1996), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1996] B.C.J. No. 713, [1996] B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 856, [1996] B.C.D. Crim. Sent. 7393-02 (6 March 1996) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for dangerous driving causing bodily harm). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Clubb v. Saanich (District) (1996), British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1996] B.C.J. No. 218, 1996 B.C.D. Crim. LEXIS 858, [1996] B.C.D. Crim. Conv. 5505; [1996] B.C.D. Civ. LEXIS 15691, 15697 (30 January 1996) (represented applicant in judicial review of constitutionality of police publication of his address as a convicted sex offender). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Leskosek (1996), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1996] B.C.J. No. 187 (10 January 1996) (represented appellant on appeal of narcotics conviction). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
U.S.A. v. Wagner (1995), Court File Nos. V02547, V02637 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1995] B.C.J. No. 2940 (20 October 1995); B.C. J. No. 2602, 104 (C.C.C. (3d) 66; [1995] C.C.C. LEXIS 2516, [1995] W.C.B.J. LEXIS 6127; [1995] W.C.B.J. 53568; 29 W.C.B. (2d) 292 (14 December 1995); leave to appeal to Supreme Court of Canada refused 106 C.C.C. (3d) vi, [1996] S.C.C.A. No.15 (10 January 1996) (represented appellant in extradition appeal). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Hall (1995), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1995] B.C.J. No. 2057 (22 September 1995) (represented appellant on appeal of conviction for uttering death threats). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
W. (W.) v. W. (M.) (1995), 931104 British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria Registry [1995] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 22361; [1995] A.C.W.S.J. 206582; 57 A.C.W.S. (3d) 311; subnom M.W. v. W.W. [1995] B.C.J. No. 1844 (21 August 1995) (represented respondent in child custody dispute). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Gervasoni v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) (1995), IMM-3301-94 Federal Court Trial Division, [1995] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 21123; [1995] A.C.W.S.J. 205355; 56 A.C.W.S. (3d) 342, [1995] 3 F.C. 189 (22 June 1995) (represented applicant in judicial review of extradition). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Bevan (1995), British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1995] B.C.J. No. 873 (19 April 1995) (represented applicant in application for judicial review of incarceration and revocation of parole, including habeas corpus with certiorari in aid). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Bates v. City Copy Center Ltd. (1995), British Columbia County Court, Victoria (16 March 1995) (represented respondent in judicial review of B.C. Council of Human Rights hearing). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Clubb v. William Head Institution (1995), 331/95 British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria Registry, [1995] WC.B.J. LEXIS 3069; [1995] W.C.B.J. 44555; 26 W.C.B. (2d) 460; subnom R. v. Clubb, [1995] B.C.J. No. 519 (8 March 1995) (represented applicant in applying for writ of habeas corpus with certiorari in aid, mandamus, and a restraining order against the institution for gating applicant without a hearing). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Canada (National Parole Board) v. Clubb (1995), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1995] B.C.J. No. 264 (27 January 1995) (represented respondent Clubb in appeal of judicial review and application for writ of habeas corpus - jurisdictional issue). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Smith (1994), File No. V02092 British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1994] B.C.J. No. 2806, [1994] W.C.B.J. LEXIS 4183; [1994] W.C.B.J. 18682; 25 W.C.B. (2d) 538 (22 November 1994) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for attempted child abduction and sexual assault). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Tran (1994), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1994] B. Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
C.J. No. 2189 (23 September 1994) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction and sentence for drug trafficking). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Gervasoni v. British Columbia (Attorney-General)(1994), British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1994] B.C.J. No. 1878 (21 July 1994) (judicial review of right of Crown Counsel to stay proceedings in order to effect deportation or extradition of accused without a trial). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Nguyen v. Alpine Florist & Food Market Ltd. (1994), British Columbia County Court, Victoria (12 April 1994) (represented appellant in judicial review of B.C. Council of Human Rights hearing). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Wong (1994), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1994] B.C.J. No. 703 (17 February 1994) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for drug trafficking). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
McIntosh v. Canada (Secretary of State) (1994), A-299-93 Federal Court of Appeal, [1994] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 16305; [1994] A.C.W.S.J. 68956; 46 A.C.W.S. (3d) 75, [1994] F.C.J. No. 67 (21 January 1994) (represented appellant in appeal and judicial review of deportation order made by the Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board, 8 June 1992). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Jones v. Oak Bay (District) (1994), British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1994] B.C.J. No. 41 (6 January 1994), (judicial review of police action in entering house without warrant or invitation). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Rowe v. Canada (National Parole Board) (1993) Federal Court Trial Division, [1993] F.C.J. No. 1408 (21 December 1993) (represented applicant in judicial review of parole board decision). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Q. (D.I.) (Re) (1993), Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board (12 October 1993) (represented appellant in refugee appeal hearing). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Re Van Hoa Nguyen v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) (1993), IMM-2574-93 Federal Court of Canada Trial Division, [1994] 1 F.C. 96; [1993] F.C. LEXIS 146, 107 D.L.R. (4th) 186; [1993] D.L.R. LEXIS 1410; [1993] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 14000; [1993] A.C.W.S.J. 9551; 42 A.C.W.S. (3d) 1047 (10 September 1993) (represented applicant in refugee claim and judicial review of deportation order). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
William Head Institution Inmates v. Canada (Corrections Service) (1993) T-828-93 Federal Court Trial Division, [1993] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 16395; 1993 A.C.W.S.J. 15363; 42 A.C.W.S. (3d) 448, [1993] F.C.J. No. 821 (13 August 1993) (represented applicants in writs of certiorari and mandamus in an attempt to retain Simon Fraser University's satellite campus and university program at William Head Institution). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Allarie v. Victoria (City) (1993), 91 1792, British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria [1993] B.C.J. No. 1592, [1993] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 21204; 1993 A.C.W.S.J. 66722; 41 A.C.W.S. (3d) 890, [1993] B.C.D. Civ. LEXIS 13024, [1993] B.C.D. Civ. 60-01 (14 July 1993) (represented plaintiff in civil suit again police for alleged assault causing bodily harm (brain injury) and use of excessive force ). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Gillese (1993), CA012173, British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1993] B.C.J. No,. 1041, [1993] W.C.B.J. LEXIS 5214; 1993 W.C.B.J. 16805; 19 W.C.B. (2d) 510 (30 April 1993) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for murder). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Stewart (1993), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1993] B.C.J. No. 210 (21 January 1993) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction for murder). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Vanton v. British Columbia (Council of Human Rights) (1992), British Columbia Supreme Court, [1992] B.C. J. Nos. 3035, 3036, 3037 (11 December 1992) (judicial review of B.C. Council of Human Rights decision). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Cohen v. Cohen (1992), 22864 British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1992] B.C.J. No. 2255, [1992] B.C.D. Civ. LEXIS 12548, [1992] B.C.D. Civ. 1603-53 (9 October 1992) (represented respondent in appeal of B.C. Provincial Court custody decision). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
R. v. Reed (1992), British Columbia Court of Appeal, [1992] B.C.J. No. 2057, 76 C.C.C. (3d) 204 (30 September 1992) (represented appellant in appeal of conviction of creating a disturbance by shouting when using a megaphone at a Jehovah's Witness convention). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Baxter v. Dandurand et al. (1992), British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria [1992] B.C.J. No. 1341, [1992] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 16820; 1992 A.C.W.S.J. 22295; 34 A.C.W.S. (3d) 36, [1992] B.C.D. Civ. LEXIS 13189; [1992] B.C.D. Civ. 2006-03 (8 June 1992) (represented plaintiff in civil suit alleging fraud). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Bowen v. Guardian Insurance Co. of Canada (1992), 138/90 British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1992] B.C.J. No. 901, [1992] B.c.D. Civ. LEXIS 13529, [1992] B.C.D. Civ. 2006-03 (16 April 1992) (represented plaintiffs in suit against insurance company entailing judicial review of jurisdictional issues). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Wise v. Canada (National Parole Board) (1992), Federal Court Trial Division, [1992] F.C.J. No. 344 (24 April 1992) (represented applicant in judicial review of National Parole Board decision). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Huynh v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) (1992), Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board IADD (28 January 1992) (represented appellant in refugee claim appeal). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Marshman v. Lavender Housing Cooperative (1991), 91-4140 British Columbia Supreme Court, Victoria, [1991] B.C.J. No. 3710, [1991 B.C.D. Civ. LEXIS 11322, [1992] B.C.D. Civ. 3964-01 (16 December 1991) (represented plaintiff in suit and judicial review of tribunal decision). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Z. (R.K.) (Re) (1989), Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board, CRDD, [1989] D.S.S.R. No. 119 (16 November 1989) (as law student, represented applicant at originating and appeal levels of refugee claim in wake of Tiananmen Square protests). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Z (M.O.) (Re) (1989), Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board, CRDD, [1989] D.S.S.R. No. 275 (17 August 1989) (as law student, represented applicant at originating and appeal levels of refugee claim in wake of Tiananmen Square protests). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
D. (X.D.) (Re) (1989), Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board, CRDD, [1989] D.S.S.R. No. 274 (16 August 1989) (as law student, represented applicant at original and appeal levels of refugee claim in wake of Tiananmen Square protests). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.
Pursley v. Canada (Minister of Employment and Immigration) (1989), Federal Court Trial Division, [1989] A.C.W.S.J. LEXIS 13345; [1989] A.C.W.S.J. 53161; 15 A.C.W.S. (3d) 315, [1989] F.C.J. No. 335 [1989] A.C.F. No. 335 (29 April 1989) (as law student, represented applicant in judicial review of rejected refugee claim). Gary Botting, Counsel of Record.