I am taking the Professional Legal Assistant program at Sundance College. The fifth course was Introduction to Law, which I just completed, and I have not yet received my grades for the course project, but my average throughout the rest of the course assignments and knowledge assessments has been 98%, so if my grades on the project continue to reflect this then I will be very satisfied with my work.
In this course, I learned about a legal concept called “public interest standing“, that has changed the way I expect to approach my pursuit of the legal status for the CIL that I have been trying to have affirmed by the Crown.
When I was in BC Supreme Court in 2014, Master Peter Keighley, the judge presiding at the hearing, told me that I was making an “abstract” case (p. 12), because I was asking the court to make a judgment even though I was not being charged, prosecuted or sued. His Honour stated that it is generally considered unsuitable use of courts’ time. He said if, instead, I use my constitutional arguments as a defence from criminal charges made against me, then “the court will probably find it far more convincing that Charter issues could be invoked and argued”.
What I have now learned in my studies is that “public interest standing” can be given by courts to a person who can demonstrate that she or he is not misusing the court’s time based on a few clearly specified pre-requisites. In my project, I described my actions thus far and illustrated how this new knowledge of public interest standing can be used.
Instead of selling cocaine, as I have been doing for the last few years and reporting my sales to authorities to ask if they would like to prosecute me so that I could try my defence, I believe I shall work on getting public interest standing for the Canada Interactive Legislature to defend people in Canada from bigamy laws. That way, if you should happen to be one of those people who would prefer the kind of marriage where you and your spouse are allowed to perhaps choose an additional spouse, instead of being restricted to just one, then you may do so without fear of the threat in the Criminal Code of Canada, s. 290, to throw you in jail for up to five years if you have more than one spouse.
To look at my project, go here: https://issociety.org/wp-content/uploads/LINT-project.pdf. If you have any questions, I would be very happy to answer them. Thank you for your kind time and attention.