Dennis Edney

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Edney in 2007
Edney in 2007

Originally from Dundee, Scotland, Dennis Edney is a Canadian defence attorney based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Edney met his wife Patricia Adams while teaching soccer in Canada, and eventually moved to the country.[1] He is noted for his involvement in high-profile cases, including Brian Mills[2] and Fahim Ahmad.

He has also served as the defence attorney for both Abdullah and Omar Khadr[3][4]

On September 25, 2007 he appeared on the CBC Radio program As It Happens, where he claimed politics were responsible for the Crown's sudden reversal of process, abandoning the preliminary inquiry, for the Toronto terrorism trial.[5] He is one of the defence attorneys who support the publication ban on information about the trial, while others have decried it.[6]

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