Portions of 50 pages from a new search warrant document could be released to the public as early as March 19, a court has been told.

The Toronto Star and other media outlets are seeking access to documents related to the Project Brazen 2 police investigation of Mayor Rob Ford. The information at issue in this request is the detailed request police made to a judge to gain access to Rogers cellphone records. The Star does not know whose cellphone records police are seeking but a source has said detectives have an interest in cellphones belonging to both Ford and his occasional driver Alexander “Sandro” Lisi.

Media lawyers and Lisi’s lawyer will see the fifty pages on March 17 and two days later, if there are no objections by Lisi’s lawyer, some of those pages will be released. If further arguments are required, and if the prosecutor on the case has objections, all parties will return to court for arguments on March 28.

The remainder of the 550-page document has been released previously. The new pages relate to information police discovered from their ongoing investigation of drug and extortion issues related to attempts to retrieve the now infamous crack cocaine video.

The Star is arguing that unsealing the documents is in the public interest and that citizens should be able to see what information police use when using the courts to apply for search warrants.

In his application, Toronto Star lawyer Ryder Gilliland stresses that sealing the search warrant requests “constitutes an ongoing violation of the public’s right to know” and open-court principles enshrined in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.