Huawei Chief Monetary Officer Meng Wanzhou on Monday will search to bar publication of paperwork her authorized staff acquired from HSBC, a request opposed by Canadian prosecutors in her U.S. extradition case who say it violates the ideas of open court docket.
Meng’s authorized staff will current arguments in assist of the ban within the British Columbia Supreme Court.
Meng, 49, was arrested at Vancouver Worldwide Airport in December 2018 on a warrant from the USA, the place she faces costs of financial institution fraud for allegedly deceptive HSBC about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd‘s enterprise dealings in Iran and probably inflicting the financial institution to interrupt U.S. sanctions on enterprise in Iran.
She has been beneath home arrest in Vancouver for greater than two years and combating her extradition to the USA. Meng has mentioned she is harmless.
Attorneys for Huawei and HSBC in Hong Kong agreed to a launch of the paperwork in April to Meng’s authorized staff on the situation that they “use affordable effort” to maintain confidential data hid from the general public, in response to submissions filed by the protection on Friday.
Prosecutors representing the Canadian authorities argued towards the ban, saying in submissions filed the identical day that “to be in keeping with the open court docket precept, a ban should be tailor-made” and particulars needs to be selectively redacted from the general public, somewhat than the entire paperwork.
A consortium of media shops, together with Reuters Information, additionally opposes the ban.
The open court docket precept requires that court docket proceedings be open and accessible to the general public and to the media.
It’s unclear what paperwork Huawei obtained from HSBC, however protection legal professionals argue they’re related to Meng’s case.
Meng’s listening to was initially set to wrap up in Could however Affiliate Chief Justice Heather Holmes granted an extension to permit the protection to learn by means of the brand new paperwork.
Hearings within the extradition case are scheduled to complete in late August.
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