The hearing for a Calgary court judge who could be removed from the bench because of some controversial comments he made towards a sexual assault victim has entered day two.

Justice Robin Camp is fighting for his job after he questioned the woman’s morals during a 2014 trial in Calgary and suggested that “her character would make it more likely that she consented to sexual relations.”

He further asked her why she “couldn’t keep her knees together” or press her bottom into a sink to avoid being penetrated.

Alexander Wager, the accused in the case, was acquitted of sexual assault. The verdict was appealed and a new trial has been ordered for November 10.

On Wednesday, the panel accepted 24 letters of support from Camp's defence lawyers, including one from his daughter who is a rape victim herself.

In it, she outlined her support for her father. She said that he did not hate women and was a caring person.

The defence also called their first witness, Justice Deborah McCawley of Manitoba's Court of Queen's Bench.

McCawley met Camp in 2015 after the sexual assault trial. She told the inquiry that when she first read the court transcripts, she was taken aback and appalled by some of the words used.

She said she wasn't sure if she even wanted to meet with Camp but, once she did, she felt that he was sincerely committed to figuring out what went wrong.

On the first day of the review, Camp admitted that his comments were ‘insensitive and inappropriate’. He has undergone sensitivity training since the incident and hopes to return to the bench.

During the course of the seven day hearing, Camp will have to prove why he should stay on the bench.

The panel did hear from the victim, who cannot be identified, who said that Camp’s comments made her hate herself and even contemplate suicide.

She said that she was ‘disappointed and saddened by the system’ after the accused was acquitted of the crime.

Advocates for sexual abuse survivors say Camp's remarks have done irreversable damage.

“There’s no excuse for this type of bias and judgment and language being used in a sexual assault case in a court in this day and age you know there are a lot of opportunities for people to be educated about sexual assault and trauma and the law so there is just no excuse," said Danielle Aubry, Executive Director, Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse. "When someone is a position such as Robin Camp was on the bench there is no excuse for that kind of ignorance."

Only two people have ever been removed from the bench since the 1970s. Only 11 hearings of this kind have taken place since then.

If the panel does recommend that Camp should be removed, that decision will go to the federal justice minister and to Parliament.

The hearing is scheduled to wrap on September 14, but could finish up sooner.

Justice Robin Camp Character Letters