RogerCallow.com 2025
2025-09-12
AN OPEN LETTER TO INTERESTED BRITISH COLUMBIA LAW FIRMS
I wish to draw your attention to an injustice that occurred a number of years
ago, and which remains unresolved.
Essentially, a senior teacher -- myself -- being accustomed to receiving
positive evaluations throughout the years, was surprised when the most recent
was unexpectedly altered to be negative, to mollify parents who were unhappy
about the teacher in question. When I discovered this fraud (modifying reports
after the fact) and expressed my dissatisfaction, I was “laid off”, for which
economic reasons were cited, despite the subsequent hiring of over a dozen new
teachers.
I disputed this action, and it was brought to arbitration, but after the
arbitrator ruled in favor of the school board, I brought the case to the
provincial legal system, where Justice Mary Southin quashed the arbitration,
ruling the arbitrator patently unreasonable. She then directed the case back to
the same arbitrator without further instructions. That arbitrator, shortly
before re-assessing the case, suffered an untimely death, causing the case to
go into limbo (in legal parlance, frustration).
Years later (2007), I submitted my retirement notice to the West Vancouver
School Board, but there was no response, preventing me from receiving my due
pension, from that point onward. Consequently, I have suffered monetary damages
as a result of those actions, without a meaningful legal avenue to receive
justice. I have tried to take up my case with various lawyers in the Ottawa
area (where I now live), but have received no responses, so I am now appealing
to you for publicity in this most unusual miscarriage of justice.
There’s more to the story. Some years later (2019), my driving license was
suspended, on vague medical claims, after I was subjected to accusations of
psychiatric conditions, which I could not fight legally, due to my previous
loss of access to lawyers in Ontario, where I now reside.
It's a "simple" matter of acknowledging that I was not given a fair
shake by the frustration of the arbitration falling through without conclusion,
and pursuing that problem to its logical end -- reparations to myself for the
unjust termination and subsequent "railroading" by the justice
system. Requiring legal counsel in Ontario, while being bereft of same, leaves
me "stranded". Even the Supreme Court of Canada wants to simply look
the other way, because a lack of action can be passed off as disinterest,
without needing to take into account that the aggrieved party's hands are tied.
Consequently, as the problem began in BC, I'm searching for a BC law firm that
appreciates the injustice of the situation to take this case and run with it,
and to use their utmost skill and wisdom to right this wrong.
Sincerely,
Roger Callow
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