ICBC
appointed three lawyers:
1. Counsel for ICBC Defendants, he represents ICBC and
its employees in claim 246736.
2. Counsel for James Joesph Donald, he represents him
in both claims,
- 246736: Where I allege he was negligent in the motor vehicle
accident.
- 245869: Where I allege fraud and conspiracy against him and
Sterling Rychkun. Meaning, ICBC appointed a lawyer to represent a
defendant who is alleged to have committed fraud against ICBC. The victim
is helping the criminal who victimized them beat the claim.
3. Counsel for Sterling Rychkun, he represents him in
claim 245869 where he is alleged to have committed fraud against ICBC, and
again that means that the victim is assisting the criminal with his defence.
Strategic
Alliance Agreement:
I recently
found out that all three lawyers work for firms that have signed a Strategic
Alliance Agreement with ICBC. So, what is that SAA?
You can
have a read at this link to get a better idea but here is summary from that blog:
“ICBC
requires some of these firms to sign an agreement called the Strategic Alliance
Agreement (SAA).
Under the SAA, law firms whose lawyers are retained to act for ICBC are not
permitted, when representing a plaintiff on another file, to sue ICBC for bad
faith or to seek punitive, aggravated or exemplary damages against ICBC.”
If a lawyer representing
a defendant accused of committing fraud looks at his client’s defence and finds
that there’s no way out for or him or her, the best approach then may be to just come clean and admit
responsibility while things are still early in the going and haven’t caused
much damage. Better to come clean now to being found responsible for fraud four
years and hundreds of thousands of dollars later. The lawyer is obligated to make that recommendation
to his client.
But in this case a lawyer can not do that without breaking his firm's agreement with ICBC,
the SAA. ICBC appointed lawyers who can not represent the best interest of
their actual client because their paying client (ICBC) may cancel their agreement with the lawyer's firm and cost them millions of dollars.
For example,
Sterling Rychkun has no way out. He never had anything to gain from this, he was
used by James Joseph Donald and now is being used by ICBC. When he is found
responsible for fraud and conspiracy, he will have the most to lose. That is unless
ICBC intends to continue to cover his legal expense even if he is found responsible
by a court. And if ICBC does that,
they better watch out because British Columbians will be going after them for
wasting our money on defending criminals.
The other
fraudsters are in a similar situations, they are being represented by lawyers
bound by the interest of their paying client.
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