Mayor Rob Ford will find out early next month when he’ll go to court to battle for his mayoralty. Lawyers for the mayor and Toronto resident Paul Magder — who is seeking to punt Ford from office and ban him from running for council for seven years — were in court Friday to set a trial date. Justice Wailan Low told Ford’s lawyer, Andrew Parley, and Magder’s lawyer, Gerald Chan, that an out-of-jurisdiction judge would be called in to hear the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act matter. She postponed setting a hearing date until April 11 to secure a judge for two or possibly three hearing days as soon as possible, perhaps in September or October. Yonge and Roxborough News
