Court Evidence

We’ll be adding many more documents after we redact the Identity Information, so check here regularly.

Each of the court documents available at DonaldBest.ca has already been filed in the courts as part of the Donald Best v. Gerald Ranking et al lawsuit or in Best’s original contempt of court case. Each has been redacted to remove personal information and ‘Identity Information’ as defined in Section 402.1 of the Criminal Code of Canada (i.e.: address, date of birth, written signature, electronic signature, digital signature, user name, credit card number, debit card number, financial institution account number, passport number, Social Insurance Number, health insurance number, driver’s licence number or password.)

Under Section 402.2 (2), “Everyone commits an offence who transmits, makes available, distributes, sells or offers for sale another person’s identity information, or has it in their possession for any of those purposes, knowing that or being reckless as to whether the information will be used to commit an indictable offence that includes fraud, deceit or falsehood as an element of the offence.”

It is the opinion of several senior lawyers, including a Crown Attorney, that distributing or publishing Identity Information such as dates of birth, driver’s licence numbers, passport numbers etc. to the public via the internet or any other means is reckless, places persons at risk of Identity Theft, Fraud and similar offences, and therefore constitutes a criminal offence in Canada under Section 402.2 (2).

We have worked diligently and responsibly to redact all Identity Information from the court documents published at DonaldBest.ca. Should you find any inadvertent omissions:

Do not further distribute the document. Immediately delete or otherwise destroy the document.
Contact DonaldBest.ca immediately via email at [email protected] and inform us specifically of the Identity Information that needs to be redacted. (Document name, page number, paragraph or passage and Identity Information)
We will correct the mistake by redacting the Identity Information, and reposting the corrected document at DonaldBest.ca, along with a public notice of the change.

The documents are named and sorted via date. We’ll be adding many more after we redact any Identity Information, so check here regularly.

If DonaldBest.CA has misquoted any of these documents, please advise us via email so we can make corrections. We urge our readers to fully examine the source court documents before forming any opinions, and that is why we are making them available here in order of date (year-month-day) :

20070518 PWCECF motion and Hatch affidavit (PDF 1.8mb)

20080110 Nitin Amersey Deposition (PDF 1.1mb)

20081030 Hatch full transcript (PDF 389kb)

20081030 Hatch transcript page 10 only (PDF 16kb)

20081204 Barbados Underground post and comments (PDF 153kb)

20081210 Barbados Underground post, factum and comments (PDF 448kb)

20090128 Iain Deane’s Barbados Underground post and comments (PDF 126kb)

20091021 Van Allen Affidavit (PDF 600kb)

20091024 Van Allen Invoice (PDF 95kb)

20091102 Court Transcript (PDF 3.6mb)

20091107 Van Allen Invoice (PDF 85kb)

20091117 Secret phone recording with lawyers (MP3 39mb)