29 April 2021
TORONTO – A lawyer’s claim for damages against people who complained about racist and misogynist comments he made on social media has been tossed out as either procedurally flawed or outright nonsense.
In a decision dismissing the claim, Ontario Superior Court Justice Thomas Heeney said Oussama Hamza ignored normal court rules despite earlier warnings from a judge about the flaws.
“This application is not properly before this court,” Heeney said in his ruling. “The applicant was cautioned as to this deficiency … yet the applicant has taken no steps to correct his error.”
The case arose in October when a junior lawyer in Toronto, Vincent Rocheleau, posted a message on LinkedIn about a project at the University of Ottawa related to women’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TORONTO A damages claim by a lawyer who objected to complaints about his comments on women and race is devoid of any merit and should be tossed out, a court heard on Wednesday. In submissions before Ontario Superior Court, the defendants denounced claims from Oussama Hamza as offensive, abusive and an attempt to thwart a law society investigation of his public conduct. Much of his material is scandalous and consists of direct personal and inflammatory attacks on the respondents, on counsel and members of your bench, said Katherine Hensel, lawyer for the Law Society of Ontario. We will not dignify many of those submissions and evidence with a response, even by repeating some of them.