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Shattered, Mitchell met his daughter, a young assistant Crown in another jurisdiction, for a private dinner that night.

None of the allegations made in the statement of claim have been proven in court. Neither has the province yet filed a statement of defence. Hunking didn’t reply to either an email or voicemail message Tuesday. It is unclear whether an investigation into the allegations was ever completed.

The complaint against Mitchell, he says in the 31-page lawsuit, was “without merit” and made “in bad faith” by an assistant Crown attorney who wanted a transfer to an office in southern Ontario.

According to the statement of claim, the woman made two sexual harassment complaints against Mitchell.

“Both alleged a one-sentence utterance, in the context of a joking atmosphere in the presence of a third person witness, with no allegation of physical contact or a request for (or actual) sexual interaction, date, relationship, etc.”

The first, from last spring, involved two female assistant Crowns who were fighting for a vacant office. The complainant produced an expensive bottle of wine as a joke to persuade Mitchell to give her the office.

He is alleged to have said the two should mud-wrestle for the office. Mitchell denies saying it. In the end, as is the usual course, the office went to the more senior Crown, not to the complainant.

In the second incident, the same two assistant Crowns were in the complainant’s office, looking at an online real estate listing for the Playboy Mansion, which was then up for sale, and talking about it.