
The curse of the self-represented defendant part 1 - time to sack my lawyers
I recently acted for a landlord in a commercial lease dispute. It should have been a simple action. The tenant was clearly in arrears; the landlord issued a Notice to Remedy; the tenant failed to pay; and the landlord locked the tenant out. It was not a simple action. At all. In their 18 page Defence, the Defendants relied on everything from misrepresentation to unconscionable conduct to an assertion that the commercial office space was somehow a residential tenancy. They ref