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On Monday in court, Henein told the judge that the defence had written to the justice department to complain about the messages.

“The Department of Justice has taken to tweeting what’s going on in court and issuing statements, public statements, throughout the course of this application which, I just want to put on the record, we take the position are inaccurate,” Henein said.

“We’ve made our position known in writing to the Department of Justice as to the propriety of that sort of behaviour … I can tell you we take issue with a number of the statements that they posted. I’m not really sure why we would be posting statements when the materials are available, and members of the press have been here and are following it quite closely and certainly are aware of the timelines.”

The Norman case was scheduled to begin a five-day hearing on March 25 to consider a pre-trial motion from the defence alleging abuse of process. However, that hearing has been pushed back due to delays in disclosure to the defence. As of Monday the justice department has provided 2,438 documents to the judge, but has yet to hand over an additional 6,000.

Justice department counsel told the judge on Monday that all of the “priority” documents requested by the defence have now been given to the judge. Justice Heather Perkins-McVey will determine which documents are relevant to the proceedings and whether any redactions are necessary before disclosing them to the defence.