A Law Society of British Columbia hearing panel has found a Surrey lawyer did not act unprofessionally when he wrote a letter calling a paralegal “an uneducated person striving to be what she is not.”
While acting for the plaintiff in a personal injury matter, Thomas Harding received a letter from a paralegal working for opposing counsel regarding an independent medical examination.
While acting for the plaintiff in a personal injury matter, Thomas Harding received a letter from a paralegal working for opposing counsel regarding an independent medical examination.
Harding, who took issue with the choice of doctors for the examination, wrote a colourful letter to the opposing counsel about his wish not to communicate with the paralegal, who had cited case law in her last correspondence with him.
“While it is delightful that you have an uneducated person striving to be what she is not, it is not my job to educate her. A child may dress in her mother’s uniform, but it does not make her a general,” he wrote…………….