A day after her client was accused in the death of a newborn, a lawyer for self-styled "childbirth activist" Gloria Lemay was in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday claiming $30,000 in damages from B.C.'s College of Nurses and Midwives for an alleged breach of her rights.

The civil court hearing — which stems from a decades-old order prohibiting Lemay from practising as a midwife — took place even as the 77-year-old sat in police custody, awaiting a bail hearing on a criminal charge of manslaughter.

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