Noteworthy legal cases in Calgary and area from Oct. 6 to 10, 2025

Finding a fraud suspect has been deliberately manipulating his health condition to delay his trial, a Calgary judge ordered the accused detained until his hearing his complete.

Justice Robert Armstrong said Scott Phillip Brooks has repeatedly misused his medication for a heart condition in order to prolong the already lengthy prosecution against him.

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The Calgary Court of King’s Bench judge said the latest example of such behaviour was just last week, when Brooks overmedicated to trigger a health issue which required him to be taken to the hospital.

Armstrong accepted Brooks’ medical records where he told staff at Foothills Medical Centre he took three, or four blood thinning pills contrary to his dai

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