Lawyers need to work faster in Missing Women Inquiry: Oppal

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The man leading the Missing Women Inquiry says lawyers need to get on with it!

The call from Wally Oppal comes just as hearings take another week-long break. “You know, we can’t go on forever,” he says.

On Wednesday, he told lawyers at the inquiry they’ve got to get moving, as Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Doug Lepard endured another week on the stand. Oppal has already been given an extra six months to hand his completed report over to the province and he doesn’t want to ask for more time ahead of the new June 30th deadline.

“I certainly hope not. The lawyers know that I’ve made it clear that we don’t run these things forever. We have firm guidelines and timelines. We have to get this thing done,” Oppal tells us.

“It’s something that’s epidemic in the legal profession,” he adds. “Timelines are not really adhered to too much. It happens in the courts; delays take place. All the time that I was in the Supreme Court, I had one case that went beyond the limit that it was supposed to go. I think firm policing has to take place.”

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