It is always a privilege to appear on host Maya Shukairy’s WiCCD Series Who Cares??, which has won a CLAWBIE Award for best YouTube Video Law Series in 2023.

I was honoured to once again be a guest on the show, this time together with the incomparable Lawrence Greenspon and another of my favourite lawyers and good friends, the wonderful Rick Frank.

We three, together with their teams (Tina Hill and Jadden Howell with Lawrence and Karifa Magassouba with Rick) as counsel respectively to the family and BADC, worked closely and collaboratively on the Abdi Inquest for over a month in November and December of 2024. It was a very positive experience from which I learned a lot and made new friends. I look forward to working together with them again as I am sure our paths will continue to cross.

In this Episode of Who Cares about the Abdi Inquest, Lawrence, Rick and I discuss some of the issues specific to this Inquest, why and how we were involved as counsel to the parties we represented, the utility of Coroner’s Inquests in general and how the Jury’s recommendations may prevent future death in similar circumstances in Ottawa.

You can watch the Episode here:

To Learn More About the Inquest, review Media articles about it and to read the Verdict and Recommendations, see this recent post on this blog:

Inquest Jury’s Verdict in the Abdirahman ABDI Inquest, Ottawa – December 17 2024