Thursday, June 26, 2014
Pendrell Place: Part 3- Transcript of hearing to dismiss Monk's claim S032263
37 MR. MONK: Well, Your Honour, first I will tell you
38 about some of the obstacles I ran into, but I
39 think I need to bring you up to where we are
40 today. Part of the reasons that I have not been
41 able to push my case forward is because I've hired
42 incompetent lawyers. I've hired lawyers who try
43 to bill me $60,000 for doing nothing, took me to
44 taxation. Representing myself my defence was I
45 wanted him to move my case forward. He did not.
46 He charged me thousands of dollars to do nothing.
47 It went up to the court of appeal. I
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1 represented myself. The master found in our
2 favour. This lawyer wasted my time. Just dealing
3 with that lawyer and the taxation -- two years of
4 my life.
5 I had another lawyer who --
6 MS. PICOTTE-LI: Objection. That's incorrect. That's
7 incorrect on the law and on the facts.
8 MR. MONK: It is on the record.
9 MS. PICOTTE-LI: That was not the finding of the court.
10 I have the decision right here that I can pass up.
11 I have a copy for you as well, Mr. Monk.
12 MR. MONK: Sure.
13 THE COURT: Was this decision ever appealed?
14 MS. PICOTTE-LI: I was not counsel at the time, but I
15 believe that was the final order of the court.
16 THE COURT: All right. Is this the decision you're
17 referring to, Mr. Monk?
18 MR. MONK: I'm not sure, sir. I haven't seen it in a
19 few years.
20 THE COURT: And what this is is it's a case between
21 Mr. Winstanley and it appears Mr. Oldaker and
22 yourself with respect to fees.
23 MR. MONK: Is this out of the court of appeal,
24 Your Honour?
25 THE COURT: This is out of the master, Master Taylor.
26 MS. PICOTTE-LI: Perhaps I can advise the court we
27 conducted a Quicklaw search and noted up the
28 cases. This was the only decision that was
29 available. If there was another decision, it was
30 unreported. To my knowledge this is all that's
31 available.
32 MR. MONK: Is this the decision from the court of
33 appeal?
34 MS. PICOTTE-LI: No, it is not; it's the decision of
35 Master Taylor.
36 MR. MONK: Okay. Well, we won in the court of appeal,
37 Your Honour, so this decision has been
38 overwritten.
39 THE COURT: And when was it overruled?
40 MR. MONK: It was overruled -- I'm not quite sure.
41 Shortly after. I don't have the dates on me, but
42 this was brought to appeal and we won.
43 THE COURT: So did you -- were you conducting the
44 appeal on your own behalf?
45 MR. MONK: On myself and another one of Winstanley's
46 clients.
47 THE COURT: So this -- you were self-represented?
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