atte ere eee ret netic ~ arale ane siete eammaeeaenn anata Scenes araaanenteameat cine aie operate tai = elhetead a s JULY 4, 1967 ini Bright lights ooo 10 amg Classiflads oon 8 Crossword 94 46 Home & Garden #0 4| y Nelghhorhoors = ees 32 , North Shore Alert ee¢ 9 Talking Porsonals ee 42 iw Listitigs 009 22 ccamrcaniienmmeromelamem tenet mermenected Coanan? Pookie Mal Salus Preduct Agreenort Ho Q0a7230 ‘Alot of one’s own 111. Waiting list grows for garden allotments Ay i More room in Buick Regal redesign NEWS photo Terry Peters - FORMER North Vancouver District councillor Joan Gadsby will likely appeal a B.C. Supreme Court decision that sided with her doc- - tor, Or. Roderick MacGillivray. Gadaby claims that she was not fully aware of the dangers of mixing alcohol with prescription drugs. 0 rug suit settled \ ‘Pro- -drug judgment’ disappoints; Gadsby considers an appeal By tan Noble ea hee a ee it hey ne ern eee Ners Reporter fan@nsnewscom A former North Vancouver ‘District councillor has lost her medical negligence suit against her doctor. But Joan Gadsby said Thursday her fights nat over yet Gadsby alleged her doctor, Roderick MacGillivray, did not warn ber of the risks when he presevibed anti-depressants, tranquilizers and sleeping pills for her from 1967 to 1990. In a BCL Supreme Court judgement, Mr, Justice Clancy stated Gadsby professed to have no knowledge of why benzodiazepine was prescribed to her, other than the tranguilizer helped her relay and the sleeping pills helped her sleep. Rut Chaney accepted: MacGillivray’s evidence that he prescribed the drugs because Gadsby was an extremely tense and anxious person, Clancy added he gave weight to MacGillivray's eviderce that the risks of short-term drowsiness and lack of coordination, and the potentiating effect of consuming alcohol, were explained to Gadsby. Other physicians, Clancy noted, also cau- tioned ber about the same effects. “The evidence shows that she understood she should not mix alcohol and drugs. She persisted in doing so,” said Clancy, Clancy added thar to the extent Gadsby's action is based on the failure to of MacGillivray to obtain informed consent, Gadsby's lawsuit was Narth Shore News FREE SPEECH DEFENCE FUND dismissed, Said Clancy: “I recognize that my reasons for dismissing the claim will not be acceptable to Ms. Gadsby, She ts convinced of the justice of her cattse but has not provided the evidence to estab- lish her allegations, “Litigation must be resolved on the evidence led in court, not on public perceptions and arti- cles which donot have the support of expert opinion,” However, Clancy didn't accept MacGillivray’s evidence in one area, MacGillivray testified that he continued to prescribe the drugs despite Gadsby’s unusual behavior and apparent attempts at suicide because he felt she needed medication to cope with stress, MacGillivray, said Clancy, stated he did not believe Gadsby! had overdosed on pills during sui- cide attempts. Instead, he arcributed those inci- dents to alcohol. See Life page 4 theriehs fay vou spy rp ra "Walor facelift 135 Canada celebrates, Outdoors, TV guide North Shore This Week p13 $1.00 7 RAFAY / BURNS Court hacks murder pair By Anna Marie D'Angelo News Reporter Maagelo@nsnews.com THE B.C. Court of Appeal ruled Monday that two North Vancouver men charged with murder in the U.S. should not be extradited to to face the death penalty. ‘Two of three judges decid ed that «former federal Justice Minister Allan Rock made a mis» take. Rock should have-asked for assurances that no death penalty wou’. be imposed if Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burs were con- victed of aggravated premeditat- ed murders. “When the applicants (Rafay and Burns) returned to Canada after the killings, they came to the place where they were ordi- narily resident and in’ doing so they exercised a right of citizen- ship guaranteed by the Charter. They came homie,” wrote Mr. Justice lan T. Donald. Burns and Rafay were both 18 when Rafay's parents and handi- capped sister, Basma, 21, were hbludgeoned to death ins their Bellevue Washington home. Rafay’s parents, ‘Tariq and Sultana, both 56, moved ‘from North Vancouver to Bellevue about one year before their mur- ders on fuly 12, 1994. Days after the murders, Burns and Rafay came back to Canada. More than one year after the murders, Washington State offi- cials charged them with three counts of aggravated first-degree murder. The pair lived in a house on Philip Avenue in) North Vancouver when charged. See Local page 3 INSIDE - TODAY'S ’