Chronicles of Twatrick: Patrick's lawyer is, quite literally, threatening the Court.

That's a powerful accusation I'm making but give me a minute to back it up.

Here's Paragraph 6 of Patrick's recent Application, where Patrick's lawyer quite clearly suggests that there's no point dismissing Patrick's lawsuit because he would just refile it and that would be an affront to "judicial economy":

 

 

Let's think about this in a couple of ways.

First, that logic is stunningly stupid since, if it were valid, then every Rule 4.33 Application could be defeated by the Plaintiff promising to refile the same lawsuit the next day, so what would be the value of Rule 4.33 in the first place? But that's not the most disturbing part.

By claiming to be concerned about "judicial economy," Patrick's lawyer is clearly threatening the court with, "Hey, court resources are tight, and if you dismiss my client's lawsuit, he'll simply refile it and waste more of your court resources, and you don't want that, do you?"

As in, "Nice court you got here, be a shame if someone came in and wasted your budget because you ruled the wrong way."

I wonder if that sort of quiet intimidation of the Court rises to the level of a complaint to the Law Society of Alberta.