Another unexpected delay in Meng Wanzhou’s marathon extradition case, as technical difficulties thwart virtual hearing
- A hearing to chart the future of the Huawei executive’s case in Vancouver has been delayed until next week
- Participants were unable to connect to the hearing, which was being held remotely due to pandemic precautions
The case management conference that had been scheduled to take place in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver on Friday could not convene and was instead adjourned until May 12. The hearing was being held remotely due to pandemic precautions.
Those arguments will now be held in August, and Friday’s conference had been expected to address how the rest of the case would proceed, in light of the new evidence which Meng’s lawyers have described as “copious”.
David Martin, one of Meng’s lawyers who was listening in on the otherwise silent courtroom phone line with reporters when a court officer announced the unexpected delay, said in an email that he was “not entirely sure what occurred”, but that the delay may have been related to “technical difficulties” with the “completely virtual hearing”.
A court officer later confirmed that the hearing “was unable to commence because of problems with the technology necessary for all the remote links”.