Hearing to determine fate of ‘knees together’ Calgary judge to start
CALGARY – A hearing is to begin Tuesday into the future of a federal judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together.
The Canadian Judicial Council is to determine whether Justice Robin Camp should lose his job for the comment he made in 2014 while a provincial court judge in Calgary.
Court transcripts show he also questioned the woman’s morals, suggested that her attempts to fight off her attacker were feeble and described her as “the accused” throughout the trial.
Camp acquitted the man of sexual assault, but the verdict was overturned on appeal and a new trial was ordered.