During November Mr. Martin worked with Paul Gully Hart of Schellenber Wittmer of Geneva to obtain immunity and safe passage assurances from the government of Switzerland so as to permit Napoleon Gomez Urrutia to safely travel from Canada to Geneva to take up his responsibilities as a member of the Executive Committee of IndustriALL, the global industrial union, notwithstanding long standing meritless  politically motivated criminal charges that remain outstanding in Mexico. View Switzerland’s assurances here as well as a report and interview here.

During November Mr. Martin also worked to complete the successful settlement of a major civil claim for damages against the Government of Canada arising from the wrongful investigation and prosecution of criminal charges against a BC based electronics manufacturer. In this case, search warrants were executed upon the home and business premises of the manufacturer in Feb 2009  and criminal charges were laid against he and his daughter under the Export and Import Control Act in April 2010. Mr. Martin was retained in June 2010 and , following submissions that the case could not be proved and was wholly without merit , the Crown abandoned the criminal charges in Aug 2011. Mr. Martin then filed a civil suit in Nov 2011 (the full text of which can be viewed here) claiming damages for defamation and economic loss.  Following lengthy negotiations and a Judicial Mediation Conference conducted before a Designated National Security Judge of the Federal Court of Canada the case was settled on acceptable terms on Nov 22, 2013.