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This is an article released by the office of Jack Cram. Jack has leveled
accusations of serious (possibly endemic?) corruption and
influence-pedaling within the Law society of BC, and possibly also the
Medical society.  The response so far has been a strange stonewall, and the
destruction of a couple of legal careers.  A recent climax occured when
dozens of police and sheriffs officers were called to a courtroom 
To arrest Mr. Cram.  Many of the observers in the courtroom were apparently
so disturbed by he actions of the judge in that case that  they refused to
leave the courtroom until the judge returned and officially ajourned the
case.

Since that time, Mr Cram was taken, in a nighttime raid, from his home and
incarcerated in an insane asylum. His license to practice law has also been
suspended without a hearing. 
His contempt of court charge is due to be heard on May 30.  Needless to
say, he is asking for public support.
 
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                    JACK CRAM - AN HONEST LAWYER

Jack Cram is 52 years old, a practising lawyer in the province of British
Columbia for over 26 years, and a highly respected litigation lawyer in
Western Canada.

Mr. Cram's practice has involved fighting for many causes in the Supreme
Court which were not "popular".  In a few of these cases, the Law Society
of British Columbia and a handful of Supreme Court Justices were apparently
terrified by Mr. Cram's activities, since it appeared he would expose
(accidentally or by design) the most incredible conflicts of interest and
endorsement of criminal activity within the Law Society and the highest
echelons of the Judiciary.

Because Mr. Cram did not drop his pursuit of these "unpopular causes", the
Law Society and others apparently endeavoured a massive cover-up and tried
to destroy two qualified lawyers.
It all began in 1989 when Mr. Cram found himself on the other side of a
case from a lawyer who turned out to be a criminal.  The other lawyer had
convictions for trafficking in heroin, theft (twice), obstructing justice,
and judicial findings of conflict of interest, breach of trust and
contempt.  Yet, this other lawyer proved to be immune from discipline by
the Law Society of British Columbia.

When Mr. Cram pressed the Law Society to take disciplinary action, he found
himself to be the subject of fabricated complaints and allegations that he
was mentally ill.  The last allegation caused Mr. Cram to sue the Law
Society, and its elected head, for defamation.

Mr. Cram then learned that his willingness to sue the Law Society attracted
the attention of others who were displeased with their treatment by lawyers
and judges.  Stories of lawyers committing the grossest of unethical
conduct were numerous.  In each case the Law Society did nothing.  

Mr. Cram then began to represent a Native lawyer whose budding career had
been summarily snuffed out by the Law Society for no apparent reason.  So,
the search for a real reason began. This 48 year old mother of 6 was a
status Indian who had dragged herself out of the mire that we drive our
aboriginal people into, obtained a law degree and was doing very well. 
Suddenly, she found herself to be the centre of attention from both the
judiciary and Law Society in British Columbia.  Before she knew it, she was
suspended from practising law without notice, without any hearing, without
counsel, and while she was extremely ill under doctor's care (a fact which
was known to the Law Society).

Mr. Cram kept asking why this Native lawyer deserved so much unpleasant
attention.  The only answer from his client was that she had, in 1991, been
rather outspoken about what appeared to be a case of lawyers
misrepresenting the Native people in the most important legal case in
Canadian history.  She had stated that the lawyers had "thrown the case", a
multi-billion dollar Native land claim case that had lasted for 374 days of
trial time.  

The Native peoples had spent $27 million to establish the legal rights to
some of the richest territory in Canada - and had lost.  Their lawyers had
conceded away their best arguments -which were sure to win for them.  This
was the biggest fraud ever committed in Canada -perhaps anywhere in the
world.  It involved a huge territory with billions of dollars of
compensation that would have been payable to the aboriginal people.  

Mr. Cram says he can prove that the two Governments, the Chief Justice of
the Province of British Columbia, and numerous lawyers participated in this
fraud upon the Native people -charging them and the Canadian taxpayer
probably $50 million or more in legal fees to perpetuate this fraud.

As it turned out, the before mentioned 'criminal' lawyer that Mr. Cram was
asking the Law Society to discipline knew about this fraud and was
threatening its disclosure unless Mr. Cram was silenced.  Thus, the
fabricated complaints and the "mentally ill" allegations were lodged
against Mr. Cram.  But none of this deterred him.  He continued his
investigations, and the Law Society and Judiciary continued to attempt to
discredit him.   

Mr. Cram then caught the Associate Chief Justice and another Judge having
secret communications with the Law Society during a trial that was under
way.  An explanation was sought, and a stonewall was met.  Mr. Cram also
caught the Chief Justice and another Judge covering up the fact that the
Chief Justice had hired and was favouring a Law Society lawyer that Mr.
Cram was suing.  Stories of unethical practices by Judges and lawyers began
to show up under every stone.  

Finally, Mr. Cram caught the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British
Columbia covering up for a pediatrician who was accused of being a child
molester - and the cover up had lasted for an entire year.  The cover up
lasted until they allowed an explosion of media coverage about this doctor
to occur when that doctor was scheduled to give expert evidence for one of
Mr. Cram's clients.  This was all for the purpose of damaging Mr. Cram's
hard earned reputation, so that no one would listen to his allegations of
corruption within the Courts and the Law Society.  Hard to believe, but
true.

When Mr. Cram went public with these allegations - what happened?  He was
arrested three times, held in a psychiatric ward for a week, cited for
contempt of court, and then his license to practice was suspended by the
Law Society of British Columbia on Friday, May 6, 1994, on one day's
notice, without a full hearing.  

Mr. Cram is a very successful lawyer with 26 years of experience, with no
history of anything other than success on the most difficult cases.  What
is to happen on May 30, 1994, when the contempt citation is to continue? 
Is Mr. Cram to become a long term political prisoner?  It is not a level
playing field.

The alleged corruption in the Judicial system in British Columbia runs deep
and is so flagrant that it must be investigated by an impartial inquiry
panel from outside of British Columbia that does not include any judges,
lawyers or politicians.
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-- 
Stephen Samuel          (604)876-0426           samuel@cs.ubc.ca
Only when the last fish is caught, the last river poisoned, the last tree
cut-Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten. (Cree prophesy)