NOTE TO READERS: IT'S TIME! NEW STAGE FOR CHARLES SMITH BLOG

"WE WILL, OF COURSE, ALWAYS BE INTERESTED IN THE WHEREABOUTS OF DR. SMITH - A LITTLE NERVOUS THAT HE MIGHT SOMEHOW POP UP IN SOME BACKWATER THAT HAS SOMEHOW NOT LEARNED ABOUT ABOUT THE TRAGIC DEBACLE IN ONTARIO: SASKATCHEWAN? JUST KIDDING!!!"

HAROLD LEVY; THE CHARLES SMITH BLOG;

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A few weeks ago I advised our readers that after the current series relating to Justice Goudge's findings is completed I would move away from publishing on a daily basis to posting matters of interest as they arise.

Well, dear readers, Justice Goudge has issued his report, the series is completed, and now I am in a position to spend more of my time working on a current writing project which, as you may guess, deals with a certain Dr. Charles Randal Smith.

Future posts will focus on the aftermath to the Goudge Inquiry including matters such as the many appeals to the Ontario Court of Appeal, the civil lawsuits, possible class actions, applications for compensation, discipline proceedings and criminal investigations.

As well. the Blog will keep an eye on developments in the world of forensic pathology - not just here in Ontario, but elsewhere in Canada and throughout the world, with a stress on the need to examine so called "shaken-baby" cases which cry out for review - not just in Ontario but elsewhere in the world;

In Ontario, we will be keeping an eye specifically on the compensation process, the review of Smith's suspicious death cases between 1981 and 1991, the review of "shaken-baby" cases recently ordered by the government, and the responses by various institutions, such as the Chief Coroner's Office, to the recommendations set out in the Goudge report.

We will, of course, always be interested in the whereabouts of Dr. Smith - a little nervous that he might somehow pop up in some backwater that has somehow not learned about about the tragic debacle in Ontario: Saskatchewan? Just kidding!!!

As always I am relying on our readers to keep me posted with information and developments that I may well be unaware of - at hlevy15@gmail.com; (The best way to keep track of future postings may be through setting up an RSS feed to the site);

If anything, we have learned through this dark experience is that although forensic pediatric pathology can be an extremely helpful tool in the criminal justice system -it can do immeasurable harm to innocent people and their families who deserve sympathy and compassion rather than persecution - and who deserve so much more from their criminal justice system - when its limitations are exceeded, when it is entrusted to the wrong hands, when so-called "experts" are placed on thrones, when accountability is abandoned, and when basic legal safeguards are thrust aside.

I want to thank the many readers who have provided me with useful materials for the site, have encouraged (if not pushed) me to keep publishing the Blog - and have reminded me that there really has been interest out there in cyber-space.

It can be lonely out there!

I am very grateful to you all.

But don't go away.

There is still considerable grist for our mill;

Best wishes,

Harold Levy...hlevy15@gmail.com;