Lawyer’s weekly Australia – The judge was having none of it !
Victorian man’s vendetta against his legal representatives, including a wild suggestion his barrister’s former firm hired a hitman to shoot him at a train station.
Williams James Mc Vey’s allegations of negligence levelled against three firms and two lawyers, including a deceased woman, were riddled with incoherent, absurd and opaque submissions, Victorian Supreme Court’s Associate Justice Caroline Goulden said.
“Hearing from the plaintiff in person during the hearing, and reviewing the [amended statement of claim] with his oral submissions in mind, the hopelessness of the plaintiff’s case against the defendants became only too apparent,” Associate Justice Goulden determined.
As far as the defendants could tell, Mc Vey alleged they were professionally negligent in their handling of an employment case and this cost him wages, entitlements, and the opportunity to claim financial benefits, including compensation for other legal wrongs.
Solicitor Anthony Bullard and his firm, Bullards Solicitors, were named in the lawsuit because he was appointed litigation guardian.
Mc Vey also named a representative of the deceased estate of solicitor Katherine Wilson, her former firm Richmond and Bennison Lawyers, and the firm she set up, Melbourne Injury Lawyers.
This conflict was because the firm allegedly “hired a person to shoot him at Kensington railway station” and a former employee of the firm caused assets to go “missing” from his father’s estate. It is unclear whether Mc Vey or the counsel were the victim of the alleged hitman.
A submission sent a month later was also “entirely incoherent” and made further absurd allegations, including that a magistrate “has abused and victimised me in my common law rights in common law”.
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