Canada’s Number One Suburban Newspaper ¥ He VOICE OF NORTH AND Circulation 986-1337 56 pages 25¢ June 23, 1985 9 News 985-2131 NEWS photo Stuart Davis / HUNDREDS of mourners came out Friday afternoon to bid farewell to firefighter Daniel Vivian Williams who was j killed on duty Tuesday. The band played a stow march as firefighters came from all over the Lower Maintaid to pay 3 their last respects to Williams who spent his whole twenty-eight year career with North Van District Fire Depart- j ment. The casket was carried on a fire engine, attended by pall bearers from the fire department. Williams is sur- q vived by his wife Shirley and five children. SS mat ORIGINALLY denied information in a recent sex- ual assault case, The North Shore News was given access to that information on Friday afternoen. The information revealed that Judge R.D. Grandisén, the magistrate hearing the case in West Vancouver pro- vinical court, had endorsed a June 10 ‘ban on publication of names and anything that might lead to the com. plainants, including the iden- tity of the accused”’. Lawyers for the News say the court’s order is an im- proper one and the paper may pursue legal means to have it rescinded. News General Manager Roger McAfee says the paper feels the order is wrong, ‘we don't think we should be prevented from publishing the name of the offender, nor do we feel that in doing so we will reveal the identity of the victims," Objecting in court June £0 to defense counsel Lorne Topham's application under section 442 (3) of Candian Criminal Code, Crown counsel Gary Hales argued that he was objecting to the application as presented by Topham, because, ‘1 don’t see that it's designed to pro- tect the children, it's designed to protect the accused..." Judge Grandison, however, accepted the defence application, The ban remains in effect indefinitely. The accused pleaded guilty on June 12 to two counts of sexual assault. Judge Gran- dison sentenced the 60-year- old man to two one-day jail — terms, to be served concur- rently and (wo years supervis- ed probation, In order to ascertain exact wording of the publication ban and to ascertain under which section of the criminal code it was originally made the News initially approached West Vancouver court ad- ministration for the case information. At the time, West Van- couver court adminstrator, Mary Epps refused to release either a copy of that informa- tion or to allow reporters to see the original information, In subsequent search for authority into sealing a public document from public access, the News was referrec through a battalion ot bureaucratics to end at the offices of Se..tor Editor ol Information Services for the Attorney) General’s office, _ see Court Page S Council calls NEWS A READER'S COMPAINT about an article written by North Shore News editor-in- chief! Noel Wright) will be heard this week by the B.C. Press Council. Fiona McQuarrie of North Vancouver laid the complaint of ‘‘biased journalism’ following a report written by Wright on a March 21 Press Council hearing of a com- plaint against controversial News columnist Doug Collins. editor In his subsequent report on the proceedings, Wright began by making the above situation ciear to readers and indicated that they must treat the report as being written by an involved participant in the hearing, The Press Council hearing of MeQuarrie’s complaint about the article takes place Thursday, June 27, at 10 am. in the Delta Room of the Airport Inn, Richmond. The hearing is open to the public and the media.