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Canadian Police State vs. Brad Love
EXCLUSIVE FROM AMERICAN FREE PRESS, 31 DECEMBER 2013
Canadian Police State vs. Brad Love
By Paul Fromm
TORONTO, Canada -- The decade-long saga of state persecution of inveterate Canadian letter-writer Brad Love reached a new low November 28 when he was criminally charged for writing a letter to his own lawyer.
“They arrest the free-speech guy in jail for writing to his own lawyer about free speech.”
While many of his fellow prisoners were passing the time watching TV or semi-comatose Read more [...]
Quebec Press and Media Are Instilling a Soviet Mentality of Fear and Repression in Quebec to Silence Political and Personal Freedom
We are descending into the Soviet system at a rapid clip with the aid of unscrupulous or uncritical press. In an outrageous item in the leftist French-language Le Devoir daily paper of 16 January 2016, citizens who "complain" to their elected representatives are duly "warned". The title of the article reads [translation]:
Warning to professional complainers. “Unreasonable” citizens make life hard for public agencies
"Unreasonable" is apparently Fortier's euphemism for "mentally deranged".
Fortier's Read more [...]
Warning to professional complainers. “Unreasonable” citizens make life hard for public agencies
Foreword: For an intro to this article, see my post, "Quebec press and media are instilling a Soviet mentality of fear and repression in Quebec to silence political and personal freedom".
Source: Société › Actualités en société › "Alerte aux plaignards professionnels" by Marco Fortier, Le Devoir.com 16 janvier 2016. [Translation: Society > Current events and society > "Warning to professional complainers"]
Alerte aux plaignards professionnels.Les citoyens Read more [...]
Treatment-induced Suicide: Suicidality as a potential effect of psychiatric drugs
Treatment-induced Suicide: Suicidality as a potential effect of psychiatric drugsPeter Lehmann
Psychiatric treatment, particularly drug treatment, is a factor in causing depression. This paper examines probable links between psychiatric treatment and suicide.
Depression can have many causes: psychosocial and political conditions, neurological diseases, metabolic disorders, aging, toxic substances and drugs. Psychiatrists generally focus on organic or supposed organic depressions, Read more [...]
Judicial Control of Vexatious Activity in the Courts (Summary of UK Approach)
Foreword:
Admin JMad: I highly recommend you read Joan Donnelly’s “Inherent Jurisdiction and Inherent Powers of Irish Courts”, Judicial Studies Institute Journal, 2009:2, 122, in which Donnelly rectifies Jacob and begins to distinguish inherent power from inherent jurisdiction. Donnelly also sets up helpful categories for each.
Judicial Control of Vexatious Activityin the Courts
AUTHORITIES
Statutory Framework
Section 42 Supreme Court Act 1981
Civil, criminal Read more [...]
Extract from the Corrected Version of the Law Reform Committee (Australia) Inquiry into Vexatious Litigants (2008)
Melbourne - 13 August 2008
Chair: Mr. J. Schefer
Witness
Mr. M. Thomas, Policy Officer, Mental Health Legal Center.
The CHAIR — I welcome Martin Thomas. Thank you very much for coming, and thank you for the material you have provided which we have looked through. There are just a couple of preliminaries before we start. The discussion we are going to have this morning is covered by legislation which affords you parliamentary privilege. Some of the things you might say here Read more [...]
Détournement des fins du pouvoir législatif 101 / Abuse of legislative power 101
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Détournement des fins du pouvoir législatif 101 / Abuse of legislative power 101By "The Papillon Task Force"
La Commission Papillon - La carte cachée d'une faction corrompue du système de justice Québécois
The Papillon Task Force -- The Hidden Card of a Corrupt Faction in the Quebec Justice System
Détournement des fins du pouvoir législatif 101
Abuse of Legislative Power 101
En 2008, alors que l’étude du Read more [...]
In Defence of Complainants, Dr. R. Pal
It is interesting that the complaints involved within the study by Lester et al (2004) were not subject to independent legal scrutiny. The reader therefore has no idea of their merits. Anyone who has experienced the difficulties of authorities and courts will realise that bureaucracy and confusion pervade each institution. Anyone who has attended one of our supreme courts will know that the service is slow, correspondence often goes missing, checks are required to ensure that the correct folders and paperwork are presented, and often uncomfortable questions are ignored. These are characteristics of the average day of a normal and rational human being attempting to protect his or her civil liberties. These are practical problems faced by the average person. Read more [...]
Unusually persistent complainants, Lester et als, The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2004
Source: Unusually persistent complainants, GRANT LESTER, BETH WILSON, LYNN GRIFFIN, PAUL E. MULLEN. The British Journal of Psychiatry Mar 2004, 184 (4) 352-356; DOI: 10.1192/bjp.184.4.352
Abstract
Background: Querulous paranoia may have disappeared from the psychiatric literature, but is it flourishing in modern complaints organisations and the courts?
Aims: To investigate the unusually persistent complainants who lay waste to their own lives and place inordinate demands and Read more [...]
Extreme Behavior
DOSSIER: EXTREME BEHAVIORQuerulousness and Vexatious Behaviors
1.Extreme Behavior
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Extreme Behavior – “Querulousness” by Dr. Jacques Gagnon
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Extreme Behavior – “Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants” by Mr. Justice [sic] Yves-Marie Morissette
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Extreme Behavior – “A Portrait of Querulous Behavior” by Le Spécialiste “with the kind collaboration of Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette”
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Elsevier – “Evaluation Read more [...]
A Portrait of Querulous Behavior (2008)
DOSSIER: EXTREME BEHAVIOR Querulousness and Vexatious Behaviors
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Extreme Behavior
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Extreme Behavior – “Querulousness” by Dr. Jacques Gagnon
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Extreme Behavior – “Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants” by Mr. Justice [sic] Yves-Marie Morissette
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Extreme Behavior – “A Portrait of Querulous Behavior” by Le Spécialiste “with the kind collaboration of Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette”
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Elsevier – Read more [...]
Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants by Mr. Justice Yves-Marie Morissette, Quebec Court of Appeal (2008)
DOSSIER: EXTREME BEHAVIORQuerulousness and Vexatious Behaviors
1.Extreme Behavior
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Extreme Behavior – “Querulousness” by Dr. Jacques Gagnon
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Extreme Behavior – “Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants” by Mr. Justice [sic] Yves-Marie Morissette
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Extreme Behavior – “A Portrait of Querulous Behavior” by Le Spécialiste “with the kind collaboration of Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette”
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Elsevier – “Evaluation Read more [...]
How I Punished a Crooked Lawyer
There’s a very cute segment (well, I find it funny; it’s given me quite a chuckle) in Maria De Michele’s article now online in English: 2010 – Quebec Bar Annual Conference : Alone Before the Court. Under the general heading of “Les incidents” (“Incidental proceedings”), in connection with self-represented litigants, De Michele warns the law community: Every lawyer knows that the correspondence exchanged between lawyers of record is not to be produced into the court file. This obvious fact is hard to explain to a non-represented litigant. Read more [...]
Yves-Marie Morissette’s “Erotomania”
Erotomaniacs and people who represent themselves at court without a lawyer (supposed “querulents”) share medical characteristics, says Yves-Marie Morissette. Morissette is a lawyer who has waded into the realm of psychiatry up to his navel, without any psychiatric qualifications to do so.
At pages 3 and 4 of the 2002 version of his paper for the annual Quebec Bar conference entitled "Quelques réflexions sur la quérulence et l'exercice abusif du droit d'ester en justice", (Some reflections Read more [...]
Favorite Quotations of “JudicialMadness”
Favorite Quotations
The social tyranny of extorting recantation, of ostracism and virtual outlawry as the new means of coercing the man out of line, is the negation of democracy.
― Justice Ivan Cleveland Rand of the Supreme Court of Canada, Canadian Bar Review (CBR)
Les circonstances qui contraignaient Voltaire à chercher un refuge chez nos voisins devaient lui inspirer une grande sympathie pour des institutions où il n’y avait nulle place à 1′arbitraire. ‘La Read more [...]
2010 – Congrès annuel du Barreau du Québec : Seul devant la Cour par Maria De Michele
2010 - Quebec Bar Annual Conference : Alone Before the Court by Maria De Michele
Foreword
This featured item is an exclusive English translation of an article in French by Maître Maria De Michele, "Directeur du Contentieux du Fonds d’assurance responsabilité professionnelle du Barreau du Québec" (translation: Director of the Legal Department of the Professional Insurance Funds for the Quebec Bar).
The French article translated here, "Seul devant la Cour", was featured at the 2010 annual Read more [...]
Tweedle Yves and Tweedle Évens
Lawyer Yves-Marie Morissette on his own cannot declare people crazy. Dr. Évens Villeneuve on his own knows no law. But, together, Yves supplies Évens with the alleged “symptoms” (alleged abusive litigation), and Évens obligingly declares Yves's target litigants “crazy”. Even more fun, neither Yves nor Évens has ever met the litigants. Read more [...]
Shrinking the Freedom of Thought: How Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Violates Basic Human Rights
Even under the legislative frameworks that are typical of most modern democratic societies, psychiatry still treads a particularly fine line between benefiting and harming the exercise of human rights. This is largely because the cultural objectives of psychiatry and human rights are, to some extent, opposed to one another. While the basic principle of human rights is to set limits on the degree of social authority which is allowed to be imposed on individuals, the specialty of psychiatry is to fit 'difficult' individuals into the social fabric. These fundamental differences sometimes threaten to turn psychiatry and human rights into antitheses, even in the most benign political conditions. Read more [...]
The legal initiative doomed to failure and the responsibility of the lawyer or of his mandatary (1984) (Yves-Marie Morissette in translation)

Yves-Marie Morisette’s first article, in 1984, raising the subject of “querulousness”.
Citation: «L’initiative judiciaire vouée a l’échec et la responsabilité de l’avocat ou de son mandant», (1984) 44 R du B. 397
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Mémoires du colloque : Les personnes non représentées et l’information juridique
Les personnes non représentéeset l’information juridique
Collaboration spéciale d’Émilie Forgues-Bundock, étudiante en droit
Montréal le 21 et 22 octobre 2010
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Le sort des parties non représentées intéresse de plus en plus les juristes, notamment parce que, dans la majorité des juridictions occidentales, le nombre de justiciables qui se représentent seuls ne cesse d’augmenter.
L’augmentation du nombre de justiciables Read more [...]
Yves-Marie Morissette : Citations de ses Articles, de ses Thèses, et de ses Interviews
Yves-Marie Morissette : Quotations from His Essays and Interviews
Yves-Marie MorissettePhoto prise à la Faculté de droit de McGill.Crédit photo: Lysanne LarosePhoto taken at the McGill Law Faculty.Photo credit: Lysanne Larose
« Interdiction physiquede votre droit d'ester en justice »
« Pour le moment, le remède que l’on a inventé, c’est non pas l’interdiction de litiges mais un contrôle judiciaire préalable sur l’exercice de recours. L’étape suivante Read more [...]
Quérulent au Québec et au Dakota du Nord, mais pas au Massachusetts…
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Querulous in Quebec and North Dakota,but not in Massachusetts…By "The Papillon Task Force"
La Commission Papillon - La carte cachée d'une faction corrompue du système de justice Québécois
The Papillon Task Force -- The Hidden Card of a Corrupt Faction in the Quebec Justice System
Quérulent au Québec et au Dakota du Nord, mais pas au Massachusetts?
Querulous in Quebec and North Dakota, but not in Massachusetts…?
Après Read more [...]
Le Juge Yves-Marie Morissette de la Cour d’appel: La référence en quérulence au Québec par “Le Commission Papillon”
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Judge Yves-Marie Morissette of the Court of Appeal: the Reference on Querulence in Quebec By "The Papillon Task Force"
La Commission Papillon - La carte cachée d'une faction corrompue du système de justice Québécois
The Papillon Task Force -- The Hidden Card of a Corrupt Faction in the Quebec Justice System
Introduction
Qu’est-ce que c'est, la Commission Papillon?
What is the PapillonTask Force?
Dans ce qui s’apprête à Read more [...]
Votre client est-il quérulent ?
Is Your Client a "Querulent"?
S Y S T R A N T O R E V I S E
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Source: http://www.droit-inc.com/article13345-Votre-client-est-il-querulent
Votre client est-il quérulent ?Par Agnès RossignolLe : 2014-08-12 15h00Nouvelles
Is your clienta querulent?By Agnès RossignolOn: 2014-08-12 15:00News
Qui sont ces acharnés de la procédure ? Quelles sont leurs Read more [...]
Ontologie de la quérulence
The Ontology of Quarrelsomeness
This featured item is an exclusive English translation of an interview in French with Yves-Marie Morissette by Myriam Jézéquel, a researcher who writes for the Quebec Bar Review. The original French article appeared under the title, "Ontologie de la quérulence" in Volume 34, Number 8 of the Quebec Bar Review on May 1st, 2002. Any flaws in the English translation are entirely our fault; Ms. Jézéquel and the Quebec Bar Association have nothing to do with it. Read more [...]
Se Représenter Seul
Without A Lawyer
De gauche à droite (From left to right) : Maître Marie Gaudreau, Dr. Gilbert Pinard, Maître Yves-Marie Morissette.
Le phénomène de justiciable qui se représente seul, la problématique ou plaideur trop belliqueux et la quérulence ont été les sujets abordes par les conférenciers.
The phenomenon of the self-represented litigant, the problematic of the too-quarrelsome litigant, and querulousness, were the subjects broached by the lecturers.
Se Représenter Read more [...]
Abuse of right, quarrelsomeness and non-represented parties
Source: Revue de droit de McGill 2003 / McGill Law Journal 2003; (2003) 49 R.D. McGill 23 / (2003) 49 McGill L.J. 23
Abus de droit, quérulence et parties non représentées
Abuse of right, quarrelsomeness and non-represented parties
Par Yves-Marie Morissette
ENGLISH TRANSLATION underway.Bookmark and check back.Thank you. This article starts on page 25, and ends on page 58. It'll be awhile before I can finish it, and it's quite similar so far to his others.
2004] Y Read more [...]
Pathology and Therapeutic of the
Warlike Litigant
Foreword
This featured item is an exclusive English translation of an article in French by Yves-Marie Morrissette, Rhodes Scholar and legal adviser to the veiled Communist Parti Québécois (PQ). (You can read the PQ's Communist manifesto of 1972 or download it from the sidebar at CANADA How The Communists Took Control.)
The French article translated here, Pathologie et thérapeutique du plaideur trop belliqueux, first appeared in 2001 in volume 155 of a yearly journal of the Quebec Bar Association. Read more [...]
Why I Learned Law and Stopped Hiring Lawyers
People choose to represent themselves without a lawyer for many reasons. Fees of lawyers are excessive. Confidentiality is dubious. Competency is unpredictable. Respectability, debatable. These angels of the legal system, as they are implied to be in contrast to the so-called lunatics who only howl and moan about them in unwanted ethics complaints, are a very special breed. They are mortals with a license: the right to be deemed to be better than we are. Thanks to the private club (the Bar) which they all must join, they have built-in protection: their own legal mafia will preserve that illusion from a challenge by reality. Read more [...]
Canada’s Legal Profession: Self-Regulating in the Public Interest?
Canada’s Legal Profession: Self-Regulating in the Public Interest?
By John Pearson
Published in The Canadian Bar Review, April 2015
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ABSTRACT
The only justification for state actors to delegate the legislative and judicial functions inherent in the self-regulation of a profession is the public interest.
But this paper argues that Canada’s self-regulating legal profession was born out of professional self-interest. For much of its history, the profession Read more [...]




