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Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act

December 7, 2017/in Legal News /by mtp_admin

Victoria Lawyer Michael Mulligan on CFAX 1070 – Discussing the Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act and the case of Everett George Klippert.

Bill C-66, the Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act, was introduced the same day as Prime Minister Trudeau issued an apology to LGBTQ people in the public service, RCMP, and military who were systematically persecuted.

The Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act will permit people, or their families, to apply to the National Parole Board for expungement of convictions for Criminal Code provisions that criminalized consensual sexual activity.

A notorious example of the application of these Criminal Code provisions was the case of Everett George Klippert. In 1966 he was convicted of gross indecency for engaging in consensual sexual activity with other men, was declared a “dangerous sexual offender” and given an indefinite jail sentence as a result a court concluding that he “had shown such a failure and was likely to cause injury, pain or other evil to any person, through failure in the future to control his sexual impulses or was likely to commit a further sexual offence.”

This conclusion was based in part on the opinion of two psychiatrists who found that Mr. Klippert was “incurably homosexual.”

The designation as a dangerous sexual offender was upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada on a 3 – 2 split decision

Gross indecency was removed from the Criminal Code in 1969. The legislation was introduced by Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Mr. Klippert remained in jail until 1971.

The operation and effectiveness of the Expungement of Historically Unjust Convictions Act, pardons, and criminal record suspensions are discussed in the show.

Listen to the show here.

Michael Mulligan is a lawyer at Mulligan Tam Pearson in Victoria. Legally Speaking is live on CFAX 1070 at a new time: 10:30am on Thursdays.

 

 

 

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