Not only does this strategy undermine our commitment to a right of access to the courts, and ignore the Supreme Court of Canada’s clear statement in Pintea v John that SRLs cannot and should not be treated the same way as expert counsel, but by punishing SRLs for their unintended mistakes with vexatious litigant and court restriction orders, this strategy is also making the public angrier and even more indignant at their treatment in Canada’s Access to Justice crisis. [read post]

McCord (here), the Eighth Circuit was reviewing an appeal of a district court’s dismissal of the securities class action lawsuit that have been filed against Moore Stephens Frost (MSF), the outside auditors of UCAP. [read post]