T.Merchant's billion$ class action vs CWB

[NISAcase]

Policies to discontinue the crowns from contracting out legal services to lawyers would be a start. Either the crowns employ their own lawyers or not to avoid conflicts. The issue raised with the constitutional organization that handles this kind of cases. The lawyers can acquire the billion dollar claims through wrongful conduct and become the subject of an action themselves. Compound interest for delaying cases as opposed to the taxpayers picking up the tab. Lastly, large numbers of individuals are beginning to represent themselves (i.e. Martinsville case). Federal Court Rules require a lawyer plan and thus a lawyer, which may be unconstitutional as well. Lawyers that end up paying interest on billions of dollars of under funded programs, wrong statistical program values used to under averaged insurable dollar amounts, tariffs due to under stated averaged dollar amounts and provincial cost of production value understated by program values being incorrect sends a message to all lawyers. Advertising the unprofessional conduct of lawyers should force the profession to take action or just keep advertising. And there is always the law society noted in Philip Slayton’s book, Lawyers Gone Bad.

[NISAcase]

Judges have to work with what they are given and some lawyers may wilfully not be giving them much in order to cause a result. There are numerous cases dealing with wrongful conduct and decisions of no evidence. Was the evidence filed with the court? This is the problem I personally came up against with a lawyer. The lawyer on his own initiative just decided not to file all the evidence. You can give lawyers all the instruction you want by fax but it does not mean they will follow through. A research project for the law students. I am thinking of starting a Blog site for worst lawyer stories and what it cost.

[parsley]

Lawyers take a public relations beating, and indeed, some may have earned it.

But not all lawyers are evilly bad/incompetent/senile/miserable, any more than all farmers are, or all accountants are.


I think the Courts themselves, realize that they have an integrity problem; at least, beingst the public percieves it that way, and on occassion, they are now publically trying to address/refute/deny/defend the rotter-collar they wear.

The law/courts/personnel are frequently mistrusted, and that is a serious issue for Canada.

I know one thing. If you want to buy off Merchant, you'd better come with a lot of cash, because he can afford to look anyone in the eye and tell them to go to hell. Ticks a lot of influential and powerful people off, I'll bet.

BUT, if Merchant thinks you are being treated unfairly, he'll pick up the tab himself. Without a big toodoo.

That's who the private Tony Merchant really is.

Parsley

[NISAcase]

If Merchant has so much money, why was he not keeping books and paying his taxes as the numerous tax court cases show. Helps his wife became a senator in and around when the liberal canidate for Calgary West (Virgina May) insisted having Merchant take the case as Alberta had 2 year limitation period (10 according to judge).

[parsley]

Sometimes, the best self overides the honest self.

That can be good.
That can also be bad.

It all depends upon if you want to be happy.

It all depends upon what makes you happy.

Parsley