Global Winnipeg | Winnipeg health authority wants bulk of lawsuit dismissed in ER death
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba health authority wants the court to dismiss much of a lawsuit filed by relatives of a homeless man who died in an emergency room.
Lawyers for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority say a double-amputee who died during a 34-hour wait in an emergency room no longer has rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms now that he is dead.
In court documents, the authority says Brian Sinclair's charter rights ended with his death so his family cannot sue on those grounds.
The lawyers are also asking the court to dismiss allegations that Sinclair's privacy rights were violated because they say those rights also don't apply after his death.
A Sinclair family lawyer says that argument is -- quote -- "absurd, intolerable and cruelly ironic."
Lawyers for both sides are expected to make their case before a judge Nov. 8.
Read it on Global News: Global Winnipeg | Winnipeg health authority wants bulk of lawsuit dismissed in ER death
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba health authority wants the court to dismiss much of a lawsuit filed by relatives of a homeless man who died in an emergency room.
Lawyers for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority say a double-amputee who died during a 34-hour wait in an emergency room no longer has rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms now that he is dead.
In court documents, the authority says Brian Sinclair's charter rights ended with his death so his family cannot sue on those grounds.
The lawyers are also asking the court to dismiss allegations that Sinclair's privacy rights were violated because they say those rights also don't apply after his death.
A Sinclair family lawyer says that argument is -- quote -- "absurd, intolerable and cruelly ironic."
Lawyers for both sides are expected to make their case before a judge Nov. 8.
Read it on Global News: Global Winnipeg | Winnipeg health authority wants bulk of lawsuit dismissed in ER death