Only way to clean up rotten governments is to legally punt lawyers from politics; too many lawyers lie and break the law and know well how to get away with it. Dirty politicians know well which dirty lawyers to plunk on the bench turning them into dirty judges to serve the dirty politicians that put them there.
2023: Lyin’ Brian Bags-o-Cash Mulroney: Racist genocide-enabler divisive cruel crooked lawyer bribe-taking white man abuser of Indigenous Peoples and civil rights, sold Canadians out serving USA and the rich via NAFTA, dead at 84.
Wanna bet Ms. Meddlesome D. Smith bullies the society to drop this sanction hearing?
2024: A+++! Markham Hislop interviews law prof Martin Olszynski on Deloitte’s report about AER’s failed response to Imperial’s massive toxic tarsands waste spill/leak (intentional dump?) at Kearl: “The AER is indeed hiding something.” Never forget: In Ernst vs AER, Alberta courts ruled the regulator owes us and our groundwater “No Duty of Care” and is above Canada’s highest law, our Charter.
2017: “Unf*ck the system.” Alberta’s Neanderthal “Justice” system assaults sexual assault victims. “The judge in this troubling case was none other than former Deputy Justice Minister Ray Bodnarek, a PC loyalist appointed as a judge by former PC Justice Minister Jonathan Denis who himself resigned under troubling allegations of domestic violence.” Commenter: “So who exactly is the crown protecting by blocking the publication of the victim’s name?” Another commenter: “My guess…..the ‘system’. It stinks and it’s all because of the judges & lawyers.”
Don Bryant:
Considering who his lawyer is, it’s obvious that he’s guilty.
Cynthia@Tintie4 2024:
Former justice minister Jonathan Denis to be sanctioned for code of conduct breach
This flew under the radar.
Denis was Poilievre’s business partner and has ties to his campaign.
@CBCPolitics @janycemcgregor
Former justice minister Jonathan Denis to be sanctioned for code of conduct breach
Former justice minister Jonathan Denis will face a sanction hearing after being convicted of two breaches of the Legal Profession Act code of conduct by a Law Society of Alberta committee panel.
In a lengthy ruling the three-member panel found Denis’ conduct on two of his files amounted to breaches of the act.
“After reviewing all of the evidence and exhibits, and hearing the testimony and arguments of the LSA (counsel) and Mr. Denis for the reasons set out below, the committee finds Mr. Denis guilty of conduct deserving of sanction.”
Denis was brought before the law society on allegations he was in a conflict of interest while acting for parties involved in a motor vehicle accident and for threatening to report a peace officer to her regulatory authority for the benefit of a client she had an affair with.
In the first case the father of a Calgary teen asked Denis to represent his daughter in connection with a car crash. But after receiving a police report about the incident months later, Denis decided to represent the girl’s passenger instead.
The second citation dealt with an allegation Denis threatened to report the woman, a peace officer who was on medical leave, to her regulatory authority if she didn’t stop contacting his client, who had an affair with her.
In the first instance the panel found that Denis received significant confidential information from the driver and her father “which he either failed to recognize or failed to relay to his firm’s conflict officer.”
“While Mr. Denis denies that he chose the better client because she had the better claim, public perception would likely see this differently ,” they wrote.
“The committee finds that Mr. Denis committed significantly more than a ‘technical’ breach of the code.”
They also rejected arguments from Denis’ lawyer, Alain Hepner, that the former justice minister’s conduct in that instance wasn’t deserving of sanction.
“He argues that good faith, sincerely held beliefs OK to lie and abuse women?, and due diligence of the lawyer are evidence that the conduct will not reach the threshold of ‘marked departure’ of conduct expected of the lawyer and is therefore not deserving of sanction.
“The cases cited … do not support his arguments. Inadvertence, good faith, honest What? What?
In the second case Denis was approached to help a couple after the husband’s extramarital affair with another woman ended and she had emailed the wife to tell her about the affair.
Denis sent the other woman a cease-and-desist email threatening to report her to her regulatory authority.
“Whether called a warning or threat, whether reserved or not, raising the possibility of ‘reporting the matter as a violation of your code of conduct as part of your profession’ and ‘reporting this matter to your employer as a violation of your code of conduct as a peace officer’ are threats.”
A date for Denis sanction hearing has not yet been set.
Hepner said Thursday he will have to review the lengthy ruling before deciding whether to appeal the ruling to a panel of law society benchers.
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2024: Equality in Canadian law? Not until the pro-rape patriarchal legal-judicial industry stops coddling rapists and setting them free while abusing and putting rape victims on trial. Rape victims legally lose again and again; judges the nastiest abusers. But Eve, you know …
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2024: SCOTUS: supreme court of raping catholic church rules cruelty against the poor is fine while granting rich rapist lying felon Trump immunity just like Canada’s supreme court put AER above the law in Ernst vs AER (2017)
2024: British Columbia lawyers suffer independence tantrums because they may lose self regulation. David Drover: “Hahaha looks good on you!! The law society of bc one of the most corrupted professional associations in Canada let alone BC!!”
2024: Misogyny Rules the Law: Newly crowned King’s Counsel, KC (aka Douche’s Counsel, DC), Calgary lawyer Rob Rakochey, skeezy f*cking creepy slimy piece of shit douche, f*cking slimy pig resigns from Field Law where he was *partner* (was *Senior Partner* at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP; I expect both firms knew of DC’s bigotry/misogyny, Alberta KC Screening Committee too). I bet UCP, TBA, CAPP, CPC, Harper-led IDU and or Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms will hire him in a flash, and or Rakochey, DC will be made Douche Judge, Court of King’s Bench.
2024: Another lying cop convicted of sexual assault set free by Caveman Canada’s misogynistic judicial industry. Michael LaCombe gets court’s compassion to “put his mind at ease” while “extremely seriously impacted” victim gets none. No wonder rapists keep raping – they’re granted licence to practice law, babied by judges, rarely punished.
2024: Fucking furious at Canada’s pedophile-enabling lawyers, judges and media. Yet another judge lets rapist (Chase Noble) of a girl go free; The Sudbury Star headlines it “sex.” Evil Fuckers. Hell is too good for them. No wonder rapes of kids never stop.
2024: Canada’s judicial-pedophile industry strikes again. Judge Reginald Harris sentence contradicts his verbiage, kisses child porn collector Nicholas Kyle David Symons with tiny stay free sentence, let’s him attend school and run errands. Law societies (self regulators of lawyers) licence known convicted pedophiles to practice law; pedophile lawyers become pedophile judges.
2023: Welcome to Patriarchy’s AI: Of course all lawyers are men! And white, and privileged, and racist, and misogynistic, and bigoted (hate & rage farm against anyone they think has no right to live in peace, or live at all), and break the rules, and betray their clients after half a million dollars wasted, and and …
2023: Satan’s Pedophile-enabling Bench: Money hanky panky, gun slugging in court and abusing 6 & 7 year old girls testifying (What else did he do? What do other judges get away with?)
2023: Another self regulating legal industry circle jerk: BC’s Law Club does not disbar trust fund fudging lawyer Hong Guo
2023: No wonder frac’ers are raping earth dead. New low for self-regulating rape industry, oopsie daisy, I meant legal industry. Lawyer, Dan K. Purdy of Missouri, not disbarred for sexual assaults of six clients (some in open court), gets one year suspension for “egregious and outrageous conduct.” Creepy, like Steve Harper’s Supreme Court of Canada J Russell Brown and lawyer Robert Regular and his lawyers. No wonder self-regulation of lawyers and judges is clung to with quasi-religious fervour like rape religions cling to kids and tax free status
2023: Ontarian white ass, Alberta (ex) Premier Jason Kenney, joins Bennett Jones Law Firm. Ex PM Steve Harper glued his anti rule of law Ontarian white ass to a law firm too (Dentons in Edmonton). How much do firms pay for punted politicians voters reject? No wonder most can’t afford to hire lawyers, legal fees are too high because of exorbitant costs buying used white trash to keep raping religion and corporations happy.
2023: Bankruptcy, Deregulated & Weaponized: Used by the rich and powerful, judges, lawyers, corporations (including churches), politicians, etc. to hide truth, evade liability and accountability so as to keep polluting and poisoning us (as earth becomes increasingly unlivable). “Using bankruptcy, corporations get to eat their cake and lie about it too.”
2023: Right to Freedom of Speech? Really? For whom? Rapists and their lawyers? Judicial-political orgies of misogyny scream on.
2023: Jason Redmond, OPP cop who sexually assaulted and filmed unconscious woman, could face ‘exemplary’ sentence. *Could* is key. I doubt it’ll happen. Canada’s patriarchy-serving judges favour rapists, letting them off, again and again, no matter how vile their crimes, often revictimizing victims.
2023: Sister Serpents: “Tips for Men #1: Don’t Rape.” Me: “Tips for Judges #1: Stop Letting Rapists Off” especially OPP constable Jason Redmond, suspended with full pay for 8 years now because the law says he can’t be fired unless he gets jail time. How happy the Patriarchy must be!
2022: Self-regulating shit show: UK lawyer Stephen Jones pleads guilty, gets 12 years for fraud after private prosecution. Solicitors Regulation Authority pisses in the wind, does not disbar him. No wonder “self-regulation is regarded with quasi-religious fervour.”
2022: Demented and creepy: Lawyer (accused of sex crimes against a child) Robert Regular’s lawyers tried to keep his identity secret to protect reputation of other lawyers. To do that, self regulators of lawyers (law societies) need to clean house and stop granting known convicted pedophiles licence to practice law.
2022: LSO, self regulator of lawyers “is a shield for corrupt lawyers.” Yup, and it licences known convicted pedophiles giving them protected access to children.
2021: Ernst Frac’d & Fuck’d by Usual Sad Sacks of Shit: Encana, Ovintiv and CEO Gwyn Morgan, later by her own lawyers Murray Klippenstein and Cory Wanless, with Alberta courts and Supreme Court of Canada pissing on the rule of law to protect polluters (100% industry-funded AER).
2021: Bad joke? Gov’t fizzes up self-regulating Canadian Judicial Council, where judges regulate judges. Racist Caveman Canada has no “justice” system; just an expensive (and for most) inaccessible legal system. Besides, lawyers can quit whenever they like, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of dollars you paid them, or what the “rules” say, and Supreme Court of Canada judges lie in rulings which the Candian Judicial Council thinks is just fine.
2021: A bright light in Caveman Canada’s racist legal industry. Legal scholar Joshua Sealy-Harrington to teach at X ULaw: “The law is a powerful mediator and site of white supremacy and colonialism.”
2021: How many companies, regulators, police, lawyers and judges enable harm to women and bully and harm women directly?
2021: Holy Frac’ing Attorney General Shit Show! New low for lawyers? Republican AGs group sent robocalls urging march to Capitol
2021: Lawyer Jordan Furlong: “No profession devours its young quite like the law.” 1,163 BC lawyers vote *against* bare minimum standards for articling students. No wonder so many in the legal industry treat their paying clients like shit.
2020: G20 Class Action Settles. Another lawsuit Murray Klippenstein took on years after he took on Ernst vs Encana and did not abruptly quit like he did on Ernst. Comment by a rural Albertan: “Murray sawed off a deal that protects the status quo. Justice Rosalie Abella should be proud of her boy.”
2020: Alberta Law Society rescinds lawyer Grey Leighton’s appointment from adjudicator pool; Ignorant Kenney/UCP refuse to apologize for putting Leighton on their judge picking committee
2020: Caveman Canada’s misogynistic law & politics enables rape, yet again. Message to victims? Shut-up! Ontario drops appeal of Justice Beaudouin’s aquittals of Paul Batchelor, accused serial rapist; Ontario court grants him bail while he awaits trial on 9 new separate counts of sexual assault. What will Quebec court do?
2020: Oil & gas friendly spy agency, CSIS, that for years, “relied on legal doctrine of Crown immunity as defence against criminal liability,” chastised in court yet again, for pissing on the rule of law. Better tell our lying Supreme Court of Canada judges; murdering illegally spying police; RCMP illegally operating as mobsters for Encana & AER trying to scare frac-harmed plaintiffs into silence and violently arresting innocents to enable oil & gas profits; too many criminal, lying politicians (that appoint our judges or become judges); lying “justice” lawyers; lying, rule-violating public interest lawyers; etc etc etc.
2020: Investigation finds one of Australia’s most powerful men, “Sex Pest” former high court judge, Dyson Heydon, sexually harassed judicial clerks and women lawyers – WHILE HE WAS TOP JUDGE!
2020: Baking soda? Frac! Dirty lawyers (become dirtier judges?), dirty prosecutors and dirty RCMP abound. A disgusting horrifying read. I know from experience how terrible it is to be stabbed in the back by one’s own lawyers (in my case, Murray Klippenstein and Cory Wanless), after paying them a fortune. Rotten lawyers know law societies serve their own, like AER serves polluters that pay AER’s way.
2020: Gillian Hnatiw, Canadian lawyer, female: “Fundamentally, the law is about power – who has it, who gets it, and how they are allowed to wield it. … Yet evidence of misogyny remains all around us. Lest anyone forget, there is a self-confessed sexual predator in the White House. … In Canada, we’re not faring a whole lot better…. All of our political leaders are men.”
Canada’s self regulator of judges, the judicial council, as of 2023: Mostly old white men:
“Male-supremacy”
2020: The Rule of Law: One for the rich and or ‘well connected’ (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) and another for the average ‘Joe’. Edmonton lawyer Shane Stevenson facing drunk driving causing death charges at centre of major lawsuit against him and Dentons Law Firm. Lawyers working drunk is common. How many judges work drunk? What’s the relationship between ordering gags (to cover-up crimes by the rich) and addiction?
2020: Just how corrupt is Alberta Justice? Infuriating! Sickening! Welcome to Alberta’s “Rule of Law.” The Fifth Estate: The autopsy (part 1): What if justice got it wrong? “I did not kill my son. It was an accident.”
2020: Edmonton lawyer disbarred for lying: “The code of professional conduct prohibits lawyers from misleading others, either intentionally or accidentally,” while nine Supreme Court of Canada judges get away with intentionally publishing a lie in Ernst vs AER.
2019: Why wasn’t Nova Scotia legal profession’s most infamous sexual predator and Premier, Gerald Regan, disbarred? Simple : 1) He was a white man in Caveman Canada; 2) He was a lawyer in Caveman Canada; 3) He was in a position of power in Caveman Canada; 4) “Justice” is not available for raped women (or the environment) in Caveman Canada, just expensive lawyers.
2019: “Hey look Ma!! Racists won!!” Ontario Law Society’s Statement of Principles (SOP) abolished by dinosaurs. “Shows how corrupt our legal (definitely not justice!) system is. May all White supremacists rot in hell.” … “It is from this circus of clowns we choose our judges, and it shows in our injustice system.”
2019: Katie de Kauwe, UK lawyer: “Access to justice should not be just for the oil and gas industry.”
2019: “Law Society of Ontario taken over by ‘right-wing, fundamentalist religious zealots?’” Taken over by the catholic church to better protect and feed its sex-crazed, child-abusing “celibate” priests? Do white privileged people think loading up on religious self-righteousness and the church will hide the law society’s pedophilia? It’s not working.
2019: Law Society of Ontario (LSO) a Pedophile Ring? Racism, misogyny *and* enabling sexual abuse of children? Ottawa lawyer, John David Coon, in custody for sex crimes against four-year old daughter of one of his clients. LSO documents reveal they gave Coon licence to practise law despite knowing of his prior criminal conviction for sexually assaulting another child. *And* LSO licenced Donald (“Donnie”) Davidovic knowing of his child porn conviction, deemed him to be of “good character” *and* let convicted pedophile senior lawyer Martin Schulz keep his licence to practice law! How grateful I am I have no children!
2019: Ontario Bar Association reaffirms commitment to promoting equity, diversity & inclusion, “speaks as a united voice.” Compare to Law Society of Ontario’s white supremacists squabbling childishly trying to hold onto power. How does a litigant get fair legal representation with shit like this going on?
2019: Statutory mandate of Law Society of Ontario is to function in “public interest” which requires the profession to respect all members of society, not just a privileged few. Pfffft! Some lawyers don’t even respect their paying clients!
2017: Oh Canada! Once-imprisoned lawyer (for child pornography) one step closer to getting his licence to practise law in Ontario, Two out of three lawyers on Law Society of Upper Canada tribunal decide he’s of ‘good character.’ Dissenting opinion finds Ronald Davidovic failed to prove he was rehabilitated.
2016: Big Thinking Lectures at U of Calgary: Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin on rule of law principal that “no one, no matter how important or powerful they are, is above the law in a diverse society.”
2013: Appointment of judges politically biased in Alberta, critics say, Process favours candidates with ties to the PC party
Oh come on, we knew Herr Denis was a stinky scumbag douche years ago, including when he was “justice” fucking minister! The legal-judicial industry in Alberta was fermented by racist women-hating money and power grubbing politicians long ago.
