Category: Sydney

Lawyers were in court yesterday arguing before a judge that Codey Hennigar should not be held criminally responsible for killing his mother and grandparents in their home in Wyse’s Corner in January last year.

He hit them all in the head and then set fire to the house.

Both Crown and Defence lawyers agree Hennigar is not criminally responsible for three counts of second degree murder but they have to convince the judge of that as well.

Transport Canada doesn’t think it should be one of the parties being sued by passengers of an Air Canada flight that crashed at the Halifax airport in March last year.

Lawyers for the passengers are seeking certification of a class action lawsuit against Air Canada, Transport Canada; the airport authority and Airbus for damages.

Nobody was killed but over two dozen passengers were injured when the plane came down hard short of the runway.

Federal lawyers argued in court that Transport Canada could not be sued because it did not owe a duty of care to the passengers aboard Flight 624, that it had no direct relationship with the passengers.