What is the Master's decision to grant a confidentiality order in an assault case?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Iser v. Canada (Attorney General), 2016 BCSC 985 (CanLII):
Having reviewed the transcript and the Master’s reasons, I agree with the defendants that the Master did not engage in a balancing that was required of him. That is mostly likely because he concluded that whatever public interest there was in non-disclosure could be adequately protected by a confidentiality order which would simultaneously not impair the plaintiff’s discovery of documents. In doing so, it is apparent the Master accepted the plaintiff’s submissions (also raised before me) that the confidentiality order granted in another inmate assault case was a precedent that could be used here: Margison v. British Columbia, 2016 BCSC 634.
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