In a recent blog post we promised to offer our theory to explain why the Government keeps coming at us, and keeps coming up with new ways to challenge our successes.
We’ve run unconventional arguments in BC Supreme Court and we’ve succeeded. And we challenge any bad decision this Government makes.
There’s a very simple answer: we are very effective lawyers, and good at what we do.
We’ve invested a lot into being unusually successful at what we do. We purchase breathalyser equipment, including the same devices used by the police, and experiment with it. We attend conferences around North America, including taking the Standardized Field Sobriety Test training that police are given. We read every IRP decision that comes out from the BC Supreme Court, and in fact our office has argued the majority of them. We do numerous Freedom of Information requests each month so that we can be up to date on the latest information about breathalysers and policy.
And because of this, we succeed in a vast number of our cases.
We are also brave. We don’t back down from a fight, especially when it comes to advocating for our clients’ interests. And especially not when the Government starts it. We’ve run unconventional arguments in BC Supreme Court and we’ve succeeded. And we challenge any bad decision this Government makes.
We’re their problem
Facing a team of effective lawyers, the Government has suffered serious blowback. Not just from our office, but also from the media, and the public. They’ve had to amend the law numerous times, often to deal with arguments that we were successful on in court or identified here on our blog.
In our FOI disclosure, we recently obtained documents to show that the Government thought they would make money on the IRP scheme. This was supposed to fulfill dual goals of getting potentially dangers drivers off the road while saving the Government money and eventually making them money.
It didn’t work that way.
Because we are effective, we cost the Government money. Kyla is in BC Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal every week, it seems, arguing another case. Many of them she is doing pro-bono or at a low cost to advance important issues. We are effective, hard working, and also passionate about what we do. And it costs the Government money. We are wiling to put in the time on files where we might not earn any money, in order to advance important cases.
This makes some people very angry. They don’t like that we are effective, and they don’t like that our effectiveness costs the Government money. It costs them money in court time, in the backlog of decisions owing to our creative arguments at the IRP review hearings, and it costs them money in making changes to the law or policy every time we win.
They want to somehow find a way to make us stop. But we won’t. We aren’t going anywhere. As long as there are IRPs, we’re going to be their problem.
We are the most successful law office defending IRPs and we just get better and better at it every day.