Chronicles of Twatrick: Apparently somewhere near Fort Mac these days.

One of my confidential informants reports that undischarged bankrupt and soft core porn author Patrick "Super Duper Nexus Chick Magnet" Ross appears to be hanging out in the environs of Fort McMurray, doing whatever it is that "swampers" do to the best of their ability. And while I have nothing new to report beyond that, it's worth mocking Patrick for another one of his legal brainfarts.

You see, it was back in 2010 that Patrick was given several months to respond to my Statement of Claim, suing him for malicious defamation. As he was out of province, he was legally entitled to 40 days to file and serve a Statement of Defence. To no one's surprise, Patrick mouthed off and insulted my then-lawyer and refused to reply so that, after five months, I had finally run out of patience and instructed my lawyer to file to place Patrick in default, meaning that the court would simply remove Patrick from the proceedings and those proceedings would continue without him; in short, there would still be a hearing to determine a ruling and damages but the court would hear only my side.

That made winning considerably easier, and it was in November of 2010 that the Superior Court of Ontario issued a deliciously short endorsement (short since it was based on a default judgment and there was no opposing side's arguments to consider), and the endorsement was thus:

And here's where Patrick's brainfart comes in as, for the next several years whenever I dragged Patrick into court, he insisted that all of this harassment was terribly, terribly unfair since (according to Patrick) he had never been served with the ruling. And here's the brainfart.

You see, Patrick seemed to think that the result of that hearing in late 2010 would be some lengthy screed addressing various issues related to the case, and a probing analysis of my arguments, and so on and so on, and he was absolutely convinced that I was nefariously withholding this from him to his disadvantage. Amusingly, what Patrick failed to understand (and it appears still does not understand to this day) is there was no such lengthy ruling; the endorsement you read above is everything.

That's it. There is no more, and that's because we had filed to place Patrick in default, which means there was nothing from Patrick that the judge had to consider. Ergo, only my side was heard, and it was a short hearing and an even shorter ruling/endorsement.

And yet, to this very day, Patrick still insists that I somehow deprived him of his rights by refusing to provide him with what he is convinced is a lengthy ruling full of legal analysis when, in fact, there is no such thing. It does not exist. It never did. But Patrick never bothered to look into the matter to figure that out.

Patrick really does consider himself some sort of whiz kid boy lawyer, yet he never bothered to take the 30 seconds it would have cost him to figure this out. You can see why he keeps losing. And why he owes me a ton of money.