This week RollOnFriday can reveal an absolute gem of a tribunal decision.
Paul Robson, a Toronto lawyer, had been disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada after he was held to have concealed $1.4m in assets from his creditors. Robson managed to get that decision overturned and then set about recovering $750,000 of costs.
However he was obviously at the end of his wick, and on 28th January he wrote to the Appeal Tribunal to complain about the timetable he had been given. The judgment quotes his correspondence as follows:
On 14th February he followed up with an email to the LSUC attaching, naturally enough, a video of a cat playing dead.
Further correspondence followed, in which he described the LSUC as a "full cancer preying on the public" and the previous tribunal chairman as "Carrot Brain". Regardless, the tribunal gave Robson his extension:
And after carefully considering the issues, the tribunal decided not to award him his costs.
Thanks to the Canadian reader who sent in the transcript.
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Paul Robson, a Toronto lawyer, had been disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada after he was held to have concealed $1.4m in assets from his creditors. Robson managed to get that decision overturned and then set about recovering $750,000 of costs.
However he was obviously at the end of his wick, and on 28th January he wrote to the Appeal Tribunal to complain about the timetable he had been given. The judgment quotes his correspondence as follows:
On 14th February he followed up with an email to the LSUC attaching, naturally enough, a video of a cat playing dead.
Further correspondence followed, in which he described the LSUC as a "full cancer preying on the public" and the previous tribunal chairman as "Carrot Brain". Regardless, the tribunal gave Robson his extension:
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Robson - how he looked, probably |
And after carefully considering the issues, the tribunal decided not to award him his costs.
Thanks to the Canadian reader who sent in the transcript.
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