Welcome Osgoode Hall Faculty of Law!
Dean Patrick J. Monahan
BA (Ottawa), MA (Carleton), LL.B (Osgoode), LLM (Harvard) Ontario Bar(www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty/Monahan_Patrick_J.html) lawdean@osgoode.yorku.ca
Telephone: (416) 736-5519
Facsimile: (416) 736-5736
Office:Room 222A
Assistant: Cathy Malisani
cmalisani@osgoode.yorku.ca
Dear Dean Monahan:
We would like to welcome the Osgoode Hall Law Faculty to CyberSmokeBlog.
The taxpayer funded Manitoba Metis Federation (annual budget $25 million) has launched a defamation lawsuit:
MMF et al vs. Terry Belhumeur et al Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench File No. CI05-01-41955
against www.CyberSmokeSignals.com. We believe the litigation involves several case precedents and grey areas in Canadian jurisprudence. It also raises two very troubling issues:
(1) The propriety/appropriateness of an organization using public money for purposes other than for which it was given (suing private citizens)
(2) Restricted access to the legal system by self-represented litigants
As you are undoubtedly aware, both recently retired Judge John Gomery and and Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin have expressed their growing concern the impact of increasing self-representation is having is having on our legal system. This lawsuit graphically issustrates the situation these learned jurists are describing.
We hope the students and faculty of Osgoode Hall will find CyberSmokeBlog both informative and a of value in their research and teaching activities.
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
Distribution List:
jwilliamson@taxpayer.com (Canadian Taxpayer Federation)
bwilliams@pilc.mb.ca (Public Interest Law Centre)
licha@legalaid.mb.ca (Lionel R. R. Chartrand - Legal Aid Manitoba)
dan.Lett@freepress.mb.ca (Winnipeg Free Press)
tlw@lexisnexis.ca (The Lawyers Weekly)
posted by Clare L. Pieuk at 7:14 PM
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