Media Information

Please note the Board does not comment on specific cases before the BC Review Board. Responses to media inquiries are for information only and cannot be used as authority in court proceedings.

A one page document with key information about the BC Review Board is available.

Hearings

BC Review Board hearings are presumptively public. For a schedule of upcoming hearings, please see the schedule page here.

After reviewing the information provided on this website, if you have any questions regarding the Board’s mandate or processes please contact the Board via email at BCRBRegistry@gov.bc.ca or use the form on our contact page.

BC Review Board staff will not be available to speak to media personnel on site.

Reasons

The Review Board, like the Court, speaks through its dispositions (orders) and Reasons for Disposition.

Please refer to Rule 31 of the Board’s Rules and Procedures Governing the Review Board Process regarding the publishing of reasons.

In circumstances where there is an application to withhold our reasons, the Board will invite legal submissions from the Parties and media and then rule on the application. 

Notices to media in such cases will be displayed below.


Notices to Media

There are no current notices to media.


Mr. Ham was found unfit to stand trial by the court on April 20, 2026.

A BC Review Board hearing has not yet been scheduled. This page will be updated when a hearing is scheduled.

The disposition for the hearing that concluded on June 25, 2024 can be found here. The reasons for this disposition can be found here. The June 9, 2025 hearing for Mr. Johnson did not proceed, as a 12 month extension of the 2024 disposition was approved.

The current hearing has been scheduled for 9:00am on June 1, 2026, at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital.

An annual review for Mr. Donnelly was scheduled for December 1, 2025, at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital. The new October 24, 2025 NCRMD verdict was also considered at this hearing. The disposition resulting from the December 1, 2025 hearing is available here.