Chief Justice Tracey DeWare will deliver her decision on one of the legal questions in a case surrounding Policy 713 by June 3, though the Court of King’s bench judge said she would “do [her] darndest” to have the decision released sooner.
DeWare presided over a hearing on Tuesday looking at whether or not the Anglophone East District Education Council (DEC) can ask the court for temporary injunctions against the Department of Education, while the court decides on the district’s constitutional challenge to provincial policy 713.
The policy was amended by Education Minister Bill Hogan last summer to require teachers not to use names and pronouns requested by students under 16 unless they first get advance approval from parents.
If DeWare’s decision allows for the injunction motion to proceed, legal teams from the province and the DEC will be back in court for a four-day hearing starting June 18.
