The continuing case of a former Calgary instructor accused of sexual and bodily assault now entails a second educator, the legal professionals representing the victims mentioned Monday.
The sixteen victims, as soon as college students of John Ware Junior Excessive College, are alleged to have been abused by instructor Michael Gregory from 1988 to 2004.
He died by suicide days after being charged by police in February 2021.
Now, the group has proposed the submitting of a brand new lawsuit towards the Calgary Board of Training (CBE), the property of Gregory, and former instructor Fred Archer.
Attorneys with HMC Regulation say the CBE has left them with no choice however to proceed with formal litigation, after they cancelled a number of mediations with victims simply six days earlier than they have been set to start out.
“To be clear, CBE had supplied us with nothing, not one piece of paper, not one assertion — nothing,” mentioned plaintiff consultant David Corrigan. “Usually talking, in a mediation, one celebration offers their data, the opposite celebration offers their data in an effort to consider their respective circumstances.”
Tuesday will see a court docket utility to discontinue the category motion, and proceed with a mass tort motion, legal professionals say.
Litigators say it will hopefully stop additional delays, which Corrigan says is essential.
“If it’s a mass tort, the folks on the market who is perhaps pondering that they’ll sit on the sidelines and their case will fall beneath this class motion concept, these folks might’ve rested in confidence that that will happen. If we proceed as we hope to, and intend to proceed, these individuals who haven’t come ahead, there’s no alternative for them to obtain compensation by that course of,” he defined.
Previous to this announcement, Archer was being investigated for sexual assault allegations from former college students at his earlier college in Springbank, the place he labored earlier than his time at John Ware.
