In what circumstances will the prison authorities be required to provide copies of statements given by informers to an appellant at a hearing?

In Gaudet v. Marchard 1994 CarswellQue 260, at para. 35, Rothman J.A. writes: In my respectful opinion, the authorities had no duty to provide appellant with copies of the statements given by informers, nor to afford appellant an opportunity to cross-examine these witnesses or the penitentiary authorities themselves. In a prison context, such a hearing would go considerably beyond procedural fairness into the realm of an unreasonable intrusion into the administration and security of the penitentiary.

In Bachynski v. William Head Institution 1995 CarswellBC 2338, Bouck J. at para. 36 writes: Prison authorities must act on the best information available. Sometimes it is unreliable and an individual inmate is wrongly charged or wrongly transferred. But given the nature of the inmate population and the necessity of preserving order there is often no other alternative. If a dangerous person is allowed to remain in the general prison population of a medium security institution, it is the other prisoners and staff who suffer the consequences because they have no place else to go.