CP NewsAlert: B.C. Law Society names counsel whose obscene remark derailed hearing

By Canadian Press on January 23, 2026.

VANCOUVER — The Law Society of British Columbia has identified Brad Hickford, counsel for a public hearing into the death of Myles Gray, as the person who uttered an obscenity resulting in the adjournment of the long-awaited proceeding this week.

The society has opened an investigation into the vulgar remark that was broadcast on Wednesday over the audio stream of the hearing into the 2015 death of Gray after a beating by seven Vancouver police officers.

Hickford, appointed by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, says he can’t comment and referred questions to his own lawyer.

More coming.

Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press