Last week, in Nishnawbe Aski Nation v. Eden, [2011] O.J. No. 988, the Ontario Court of Appeal allowed an appeal of a First Nation and the relatives of two deceased persons from the dismissal of their applications for judicial review of a coroner’s refusal to issue a summons. 

The appellants were concerned with the process for the selection of a jury roll and the failure to ensure that Aboriginal people would be on the coroner’s inquest jury.

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