Sex assault trial for ex-world junior hockey players to resume after unexpected turn on opening day

I’m Katie Nicholson, senior reporter for CBC News, and I’m here at the courthouse this morning.

It’s going to be a hot day here in London for the camera crews poised outside the exits and entrances.

The accused players and their lawyers have all arrived for more proceedings this morning. Court still has to clear up a matter from yesterday between the judge and the lawyers before the jury is expected to return around noon. We are prohibited from reporting what transpired.

It’s often close quarters here. We all go through the same entrance and security process, and we are often standing next to one another on the main floor waiting to get into the courtroom and for elevators, sometimes literally bumping into one another.

Before yesterday’s matter arose on the lunch break, we were just kicking off with witness No. 1, a London Police Service detective, after the Crown’s opening statement laying out their case. That’s all on pause until this matter from yesterday is resolved.

Good morning. I’m a producer based in Toronto and I’ll be curating our live page today.

Our reporters are back at the Superior Court in London, Ont., for the sexual assault trial of five former world junior hockey players.

Updates from court may be a bit slower for the next little while as the judge deals with a procedural matter that we are not allowed to report on.

But we’ll bring you all the latest developments as soon as we’re able.

Stay tuned.