So to summarize, yesterday, Patrick's recently-acquired lawyer showed up woefully and embarrassingly unprepared in Grande Prairie virtual courtroom 70, and proceeded to make an absolute ass of himself by doing nothing more than regurgitating the idiotic arguments handed to him by whiny perpetual victim and 45-year-old crybaby Patrick Ross.
Given that he could not possibly argue against the clear lack of advancement from Patrick for well over three years, Patrick's lawyer attempted the bold strategy of arguing that Patrick should be accommodated because he suffered from a medical "disability", what with being depressed and harassed and intimidated and living in abject terror so forth:
Mercifully, the judge was having none of this, pointing out that Patrick's lawyer had provided the Court with not one fucking shred of evidence or affidavit or doctor's note to back this up. In the end, the judge quite correctly applied the law and gave Patrick's lawsuit the boot.
So what's next? Apparently, I should prepare for more of the same since Patrick has already promised to simply refile the same meritless nonsense to restart the three-year clock:
As soon as he does that, I can assure you he will be in for a surprise, but I'll keep that to myself for the moment. For now, let's just bask in the happiness of Patrick having had his pasty ass handed to him once again by the courts.
BONUS TRACK: At one point, Patrick's monumentally-uninterested and unprepared lawyer (who appeared to be counting the billable minutes until he could flee that beatdown) mentioned Patrick's actively trying to overturn my 2010 default judgment against him. You could actually see the tiny smirk on the judge's face as she patiently explained that that judgment was from 16 years ago, and she didn't see how there was much chance of that happening.
PREDICTION: Patrick will have no further use for this lawyer and will fire him shortly and go back to filing stupid lawsuits by himself.
6 comments:
He's being awfully quiet on Twitter...Wonder why???
We all know that Twatsy would be dumb enough to try to re-file his rubbish lawsuit, but surely his lawyer, a graduate of the University of Calgary Law School and member of the Alberta Bar, couldn't also be that stupid....right???...right???
RossOwesDay: I already predicted that Patrick will fire this lawyer and go back to filing his own worthless rubbish.
So hilarious how he went from his letter to your lawyer bragadociousness to basically whimpering in terror!
Let us know if or when Twatsy fires his lawyer.
From this account, it appears that Patrick's lawyer was doing "exactly what he was instructed to do" by Patrick - complete down to the argument that he was somehow "incapacitated" during that three year period of inaction.
He was likely disinterested because he knew full well what the outcome would likely be, and was doing little more than presenting his client's case to the court.
As for Patrick, well - he might file another action, but I doubt very much that he's going to get very far with it - if he just takes the most recent one and appends claims that somehow your blog posts constitute defamation, well ... I imagine that handing the court the two filings and saying "everything from paragraphs 1 - x is a duplication of this dismissed case" should be enough to put paid to the stupidity.
The rest you can argue "the best defence is truth" - it's true that he owes you a significant chunk of change, and it is true that he has refused to pay any of it voluntarily. The court doesn't have to "like" your editorial style.
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