N.S. spent $1M on lawyers in disciplinary case involving Halifax cardiologist
CBC
Documents the Nova Scotia government has finally released after long insisting they be kept secret show $1 million in taxpayers' money was spent on outside lawyers taking part in a lengthy disciplinary process nearly two decades ago involving Halifax cardiology researcher Gabrielle Horne.
The dispute centred on Horne's attempts to have her hospital privileges reinstated. They had been reduced following a disagreement with colleagues on who should get part of the credit for her work, a situation that was called "a classic case of workplace bullying."
The figures only include the legal fees from before the time Horne successfully launched a lawsuit against the former Capital District Health Authority, which a jury concluded in 2016 had acted in bad faith.
Although the CBC requested the legal fees information in September 2016, the provincial government refused to release the figures until Nova Scotia's information commissioner issued a report critical of the decision to continue to keep the amounts secret. The decision to release the records came after the PCs took power from the Liberals in August's general election.
On Monday, Horne called the figure "extremely upsetting."
"I think that was probably a small fraction of what was actually spent," she told CBC.
The figures are included in an email attachment sent to PC Health Minister Chris d'Entremont in 2008. The attachment breaks down the costs over five years, starting in 2002. That's the year Horne's heart research was effectively shut down as a result of having her hospital privileges suspended.
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