Timeline for New Brunswicks Policy 713 legal resolution unclear – New Brunswick [Video]

Justice Richard Petrie says he will try and deliver a decision on requests from six groups to participate in the Policy 713 legal challenge on May 6, but a number of other issues have the potential to delay proceedings afterwards.

“I’ve somewhat unfortunately cornered myself into a box of making a decision by May 6,” Petrie told the court at the close of a hearing on Monday.

A number of groups are looking to intervene on the judicial review of the province’s decision to amend its school gender identity policy to require parental consent for children under 16 to use a different name or pronoun in the classroom. But a number of other issues threaten to gum up proceedings afterwards.

Court dates the week of May 13 have been set aside to possibly deal with disagreements over redactions in the records of the information that education minister Bill Hogan had in front …