Justices Howard Skipp and Pamela Kirkpatrick
Justice Howard Skipp
Mr. Justice Skipp was a judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia from 1989 to 2001. He showed up in the WaterWarCrimes cases and we think he was a crooked judge and we will tell you why.
Firstly we should point out that Mr. Skipp was appointed to his position when John Tait was former Deputy Minister of Justice for Canada (1988 to 1994) who died, suddenly, in 1999, at about the same time the Sun Belt Water case landed in Ottawa - like a bombshell.
In addition, Mr. Skipp showed up as a judge in a private lawsuit between Mr. John Brown and his wife and it is now suspected that Mr. Justice Skipp intentionally cheated, John Brown, an retired gentleman, because he was Mr. Carten's client. This is one of the tactics the "judicial mafia" use to sabotage lawyers that they are targeting. Vancouver lawyer Jack Cram reported that he experienced the same phenomenon when he was blowing the whistle on corruption. The disturbing case of John Brown also involve British Columbia Court of Appeal Justice Pamela Kirkpatrick who was also appointed to the British Columbia Supreme Court in 1992 when John Tait was Deputy Minister of Justice and Kim Campbell was Minister of Justice. The case of John Brown is discussed below and is an important example of how the judicial mafia operates.
In July 1999, immediately after Mr. Carten had moved to Calgary, Alberta, to avoid another session in prison in British Columbia, the lawyers inside the Ministry of the Attorney General made an application to dismiss the lawsuit Sun Belt Water Inc. had filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
The application was brought to court without proper notification to Mr. Carten or Sun Belt Water Inc. and the presiding judge, Madam Justice Downs, ordered that the documents should be served by registered mail on Mr. Carten at his Calgary address "within fourteen (14) days" of her Order.
The Ministry of the Attorney General did not comply with the Order but waited a full fifty (50) days before mailing out the documents.
When he received the documents Mr. Carten contacted the Bryan Williams the Chief Judge of British Columbia Supreme Court and advised that the Government of British Columbia was breaking the law by bringing on its application in direct violation of the Order of Judge Downs and that the application was illegal. He asked Justice Williams to intervene to insure justice was done. A similar letter was sent the Court, in Nanaimo, to be placed on the file for the presiding judge.
Mr. Carten was unable to attend in Nanaimo on the day selected and asked Ms Gibbs to attend as a witness to observe for anything crooked.
Firstly we should point out that Mr. Skipp was appointed to his position when John Tait was former Deputy Minister of Justice for Canada (1988 to 1994) who died, suddenly, in 1999, at about the same time the Sun Belt Water case landed in Ottawa - like a bombshell.
In addition, Mr. Skipp showed up as a judge in a private lawsuit between Mr. John Brown and his wife and it is now suspected that Mr. Justice Skipp intentionally cheated, John Brown, an retired gentleman, because he was Mr. Carten's client. This is one of the tactics the "judicial mafia" use to sabotage lawyers that they are targeting. Vancouver lawyer Jack Cram reported that he experienced the same phenomenon when he was blowing the whistle on corruption. The disturbing case of John Brown also involve British Columbia Court of Appeal Justice Pamela Kirkpatrick who was also appointed to the British Columbia Supreme Court in 1992 when John Tait was Deputy Minister of Justice and Kim Campbell was Minister of Justice. The case of John Brown is discussed below and is an important example of how the judicial mafia operates.
In July 1999, immediately after Mr. Carten had moved to Calgary, Alberta, to avoid another session in prison in British Columbia, the lawyers inside the Ministry of the Attorney General made an application to dismiss the lawsuit Sun Belt Water Inc. had filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
The application was brought to court without proper notification to Mr. Carten or Sun Belt Water Inc. and the presiding judge, Madam Justice Downs, ordered that the documents should be served by registered mail on Mr. Carten at his Calgary address "within fourteen (14) days" of her Order.
The Ministry of the Attorney General did not comply with the Order but waited a full fifty (50) days before mailing out the documents.
When he received the documents Mr. Carten contacted the Bryan Williams the Chief Judge of British Columbia Supreme Court and advised that the Government of British Columbia was breaking the law by bringing on its application in direct violation of the Order of Judge Downs and that the application was illegal. He asked Justice Williams to intervene to insure justice was done. A similar letter was sent the Court, in Nanaimo, to be placed on the file for the presiding judge.
Mr. Carten was unable to attend in Nanaimo on the day selected and asked Ms Gibbs to attend as a witness to observe for anything crooked.
The Case of John Brown
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Justices Howard Skipp and Pamela Kirkpatrick
Judicial Fraud Is Called Chicanery
This is a sad case.
It is about an old man who was cheated out of his share of his family assets by the flawed judgments of Justices Howard Skipp and Pamela Kirkpatrick.
The case was basically simple. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were both previously divorced and decided to get married. They had no assets to speak of but shortly before they were married Mrs. Brown purchased a small home in her own name. She put down a few hundred dollars and took out a mortgage for 95% of its value. When the couple got married the equity in the home was worth about $1,000. Over the next fifteen years or so, Mr. Brown and Mrs. Brown lived in the home and they contributed equally to the value of the home and at the time they decided to get a divorce the value was about $80,000.
The divorce was a simple case.
Each party had about the same income from government pensions and the only remaining asset was the family home.
The law is very clear - the value of the home should have been divided equally between the two parties.
Justice Kirkpatrick was then a Master of the Supreme Court and she was assigned the case. Justice Kirkpatrick directed that the wife get 100% of the family assets and John Brown, Mr. Carten's client get nothing. This was legal nonsense.
Mr. Brown appealed and Justice Skipp was assigned to the case. Mr. Carten told Justice Skipp that the law was clear that in a marriage of that duration, fifteen years, and, in the absence of any mitigating factors, the assets should be divided equally. Justice Skipp ordered that Mr. Brown should get $7,000 out of $80,000 about $33,000 less than the law stated he should get. The decision of Justice Skipp was nonsense also.
Mr. Brown appealed to the Court of Appeal and, shortly before the Court of Appeal hearing, Mrs. Brown and her lawyers, realizing they were going to lose, settled the case by agreeing to pay the sum approximately $35,000, slightly less than the full $40,000 due but close enough. The offer was accepted and the case was concluded.
Mr. Brown never got justice because his legal bill, which he never complained about, ate up a sizable portion of the settlement. He would never of had a legal bill of that size if Justice Pamela Kirkpatrick and Justice Howard Skipp had applied the law the way they knew it should have been applied. Similarly, Mrs. Brown wasted her money on extra legal fees because Justices Kirkpatrick and Skipp refused to apply the law properly.
A few months later, in 1992, Pamela Kirkpatrick was promoted from the lowly job of Master to the job of a Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Was this a reward for services rendered?
Several months after the settlement, John Brown's children, two young men in their forties, approached Mr. Carten to advise their father had died and how the two judge's decisions had broken their father's spirit and had left him very embittered to the legal system. Mr. Carten apologized for the legal system and said he just could not understand why the judges did what they did. Mr. Brown's children advised "Oh, we have no complaint about your service, Mr. Carten, neither did our father. But there is something very wrong with the justice system in this province."
At the time, it was a mystery why these two otherwise seemingly competent judges would not apply the law properly but their mis-conduct became perfectly clear as the WaterWarCrimes unfolded.
We are of the opinion, that Pamela Kirkpatrick and Howard Skipp were sent in to sabotage the case because Mr. Carten was not part of the legal and judicial mafia operating in British Columbia.
Mr. Justice Skipp retired in 2001 and Madam Justice Kirkpatrick is now a member of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia.
Recent investigations reveal that Pamela Kirkpatrick is closely linked to Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Jerry McHale, and the Ministry of the Attorney General for British Columbia.
If you have a current photo of Justice Kirkpatrick or Justice Skipp (retired), we would be pleased to post it here if you sent it to us at waterwarcrimes @gmail.com
It is about an old man who was cheated out of his share of his family assets by the flawed judgments of Justices Howard Skipp and Pamela Kirkpatrick.
The case was basically simple. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were both previously divorced and decided to get married. They had no assets to speak of but shortly before they were married Mrs. Brown purchased a small home in her own name. She put down a few hundred dollars and took out a mortgage for 95% of its value. When the couple got married the equity in the home was worth about $1,000. Over the next fifteen years or so, Mr. Brown and Mrs. Brown lived in the home and they contributed equally to the value of the home and at the time they decided to get a divorce the value was about $80,000.
The divorce was a simple case.
Each party had about the same income from government pensions and the only remaining asset was the family home.
The law is very clear - the value of the home should have been divided equally between the two parties.
Justice Kirkpatrick was then a Master of the Supreme Court and she was assigned the case. Justice Kirkpatrick directed that the wife get 100% of the family assets and John Brown, Mr. Carten's client get nothing. This was legal nonsense.
Mr. Brown appealed and Justice Skipp was assigned to the case. Mr. Carten told Justice Skipp that the law was clear that in a marriage of that duration, fifteen years, and, in the absence of any mitigating factors, the assets should be divided equally. Justice Skipp ordered that Mr. Brown should get $7,000 out of $80,000 about $33,000 less than the law stated he should get. The decision of Justice Skipp was nonsense also.
Mr. Brown appealed to the Court of Appeal and, shortly before the Court of Appeal hearing, Mrs. Brown and her lawyers, realizing they were going to lose, settled the case by agreeing to pay the sum approximately $35,000, slightly less than the full $40,000 due but close enough. The offer was accepted and the case was concluded.
Mr. Brown never got justice because his legal bill, which he never complained about, ate up a sizable portion of the settlement. He would never of had a legal bill of that size if Justice Pamela Kirkpatrick and Justice Howard Skipp had applied the law the way they knew it should have been applied. Similarly, Mrs. Brown wasted her money on extra legal fees because Justices Kirkpatrick and Skipp refused to apply the law properly.
A few months later, in 1992, Pamela Kirkpatrick was promoted from the lowly job of Master to the job of a Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Was this a reward for services rendered?
Several months after the settlement, John Brown's children, two young men in their forties, approached Mr. Carten to advise their father had died and how the two judge's decisions had broken their father's spirit and had left him very embittered to the legal system. Mr. Carten apologized for the legal system and said he just could not understand why the judges did what they did. Mr. Brown's children advised "Oh, we have no complaint about your service, Mr. Carten, neither did our father. But there is something very wrong with the justice system in this province."
At the time, it was a mystery why these two otherwise seemingly competent judges would not apply the law properly but their mis-conduct became perfectly clear as the WaterWarCrimes unfolded.
We are of the opinion, that Pamela Kirkpatrick and Howard Skipp were sent in to sabotage the case because Mr. Carten was not part of the legal and judicial mafia operating in British Columbia.
Mr. Justice Skipp retired in 2001 and Madam Justice Kirkpatrick is now a member of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia.
Recent investigations reveal that Pamela Kirkpatrick is closely linked to Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Jerry McHale, and the Ministry of the Attorney General for British Columbia.
If you have a current photo of Justice Kirkpatrick or Justice Skipp (retired), we would be pleased to post it here if you sent it to us at waterwarcrimes @gmail.com