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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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Détournement des fins du pouvoir législatif 101 / Abuse of legislative power 101

FEATURED GUEST ARTICLE 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

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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.

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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

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Extreme Behavior

DOSSIER: EXTREME BEHAVIORQuerulousness and Vexatious Behaviors 1.Extreme Behavior 2. Extreme Behavior – “Querulousness” by Dr. Jacques Gagnon 3. Extreme Behavior – “Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants” by Mr. Justice [sic] Yves-Marie Morissette 4. Extreme Behavior – “A Portrait of Querulous Behavior” by Le Spécialiste “with the kind collaboration of Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette” 5. Elsevier – “Evaluation

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A Portrait of Querulous Behavior (2008)

DOSSIER: EXTREME BEHAVIOR Querulousness and Vexatious Behaviors 1. Extreme Behavior 2. Extreme Behavior – “Querulousness” by Dr. Jacques Gagnon 3. Extreme Behavior – “Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants” by Mr. Justice [sic] Yves-Marie Morissette 4. Extreme Behavior – “A Portrait of Querulous Behavior” by Le Spécialiste “with the kind collaboration of Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette” 5. Elsevier –

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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 2. Extreme Behavior – “Querulousness” by Dr. Jacques Gagnon 3. Extreme Behavior – “Judicial Control of Querulous Litigants” by Mr. Justice [sic] Yves-Marie Morissette 4. Extreme Behavior – “A Portrait of Querulous Behavior” by Le Spécialiste “with the kind collaboration of Mr. Justice Y.-M. Morissette” 5. Elsevier – “Evaluation

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 COMING SOON.Bookmark and check back.Thank you.   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

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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

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Quérulent au Québec et au Dakota du Nord, mais pas au Massachusetts…

FEATURED GUEST ARTICLE 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

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Le Juge Yves-Marie Morissette de la Cour d’appel: La référence en quérulence au Québec par “Le Commission Papillon”

FEATURED GUEST ARTICLE 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

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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 English Revision Coming.Bookmark and check back.Thank you.   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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 (Paragraphing added.)   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

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Welcome to JudicialMadness

Judges are declaring lawyerless litigants “crazy” from the bench in Quebec! [UPDATED 6 May 2016] This is a new website, by a team of one in Montreal, Canada. My objective here is to focus on a subject of grave concern for the average individual who may choose to pursue his or her own interests at court without a lawyer. In Quebec, for nearly two decades, one man has successfully pushed the legal system into adopting an arbitrary and despotic approach to pro-se litigants, meaning lawyerless

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Soviet psychiatric drug for dissidents  given to U.S. patients

It’s called Haldol. The generic name is haloperidol. It’s classified as an “anti-psychotic”. You’ll read that Haldol is being phased out in the US, but PM: The Essential Resource for Pharma Marketers reports that Haldol accounts for 5% of anti-psychotic prescriptions handed out between 2010 and 2011. That’s 2.7 million prescriptions for Haldol. In one year, in the US. The major and frequent adverse effects of the drug? Akathisia (the irresistible and painful impulse to keep moving, the inability to sit still), dystonia (severe muscle contractions that twist the body grotesquely), and Parkinsonism. In short, torture. All three of these effects can indicate motor brain damage.

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 — Mauro Cappelletti dans Louis Favoreu (dir.), Le pouvoir des juges, Paris, Economica, 1990, p. 115.
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“In public regulation of this sort there is no such thing as absolute and untrammelled ‘discretion’, that is that action can be taken on any ground or for any reason that can be suggested to the mind of the administrator; no legislative Act can, without express language, be taken to contemplate an unlimited arbitrary power exercisable for any purpose, however capricious or irrelevant, regardless of the nature or purpose of the statute. Fraud and cor­ruption in the Commission may not be mentioned in such statutes but they are always implied as exceptions. ‘Discretion’ necessarily implies good faith in discharging public duty; there is always a perspective within which a statute is intended to operate; and any clear departure from its lines or objects is just as objectionable as fraud or corruption.”

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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)
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Fears are mounting that the psychiatrist Anatoly Koryagin is near to death in the notorious jail of Christopol in central Russia. Letters that have reached the West from his wife and a friend indicate that he is so weak that unless he is given expert medical care he could die at any time. Dr. Koryagin has been in prison for the last four years for actively opposing the political abuse of psychiatry. The abuse takes the form of labeling dissidents as mad and forcibly treating them with drugs in mental hospitals.   ― Peter B. Reddaway, "The Case of Dr. Koryagin", October 10, 1985 issue of The New York Times Review of Books
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“Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.”

— “The Education of an Organizer”, p. 75, Rules for Radicals, A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky, Random House, New York, 1971.

I am no fan of Saul Alinsky's whose methods are antidemocratic and unparliamentary. But since we are fighting a silent war against the subversive Left, I say, if it works for them, it will work for us. Bring on the ridicule!  And in this case, it is richly deserved by the congeries of judicial forces wearing the Tweedle suits, and by those who are accurately conducting our befuddled usurpers towards the Red Dawn.

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