JCT: Anyone following our hundreds of medpot court battles know how
many dozens of times a judge has said he would not permit taping
despite Section 136 saying nothing stops anyone from taping for their
own notes. Let's you have to argue for yourself, like many do these
days, and you have Alzheimer's. Sure would help to have a tape to
remember what you said the previous day. Not a transcript available,
even free as some refusing judges have ordered, three months later.

Parker has the same request before Justice Tulloch as we've many times
raised but James Turner finally got an answer, and not from a lower-
court judge, but from an Ontario Court of Appeal judge.
Of course, I've detailed the dozen OCA judges who have permitted me to
tape my proceedings for my notes, even if my memories were transcribed
and posted on the internet later that day. But I've never had a
highest judge deal with the request until James Turner.

In refusing to delay his in-complete appeal for which no transcripts,
factums or Certificate of Completion were filed, the judge did order
that James be allowed to tape record the proceedings.

It never registered until today how big a win that is.
James is now in the process of getting the signed endorsement of the
judge or even a signed Order with with court seal (just the signed
endorsement is really enough) and when he does, we're going to post it
so everyone can refer to the highest court in Ontario ordering that
the tape recorder be allowed!!!

Wow, the Turner "Turn-on Taping" decision.
Wow, wow, wow, wow!!!
Stay tuned for location of signed order.