Sometimes digging is needed to confirm pseudolaw is in play in litigation. A series of British Columbia court decisions all emerge from an underlying labour dispute. The unsuccessful party sues a lawyer, a tribunal member, a judge. But in a strange way:
People are sued in their “private capacity”, versus the professional roles (e.g. Bains v Morishita, 2026 BCCA 241; Bains v Barker, 2026 BCCA 65)
An official did not provide their “oath of office” (e.g. Bains v Morishita, 2026 BCCA 241; Bains v Barker, 2026 BCCA 243)
Targeted actors have “trespassed”, but not in a physical sense, but into legal matters (e.g. Bains v O'Rourke, 2025 BCSC 2534)
That’s pretty close to a smoking gun that this is a pseudolaw process. The idea that officials must present their “oath of office” on demand is an ancient pseudolaw gambit. If you can’t prove you are authorized to act, you automatically must be illegitimate. In fact, in law the presumption is the other way around. People like judges and government officials are presumed to have valid authorization. It’s up to the other side to prove otherwise.
“Private capacity” points to Strawman Theory, the idea people have multiple identities, and that with the correct language you can dig underneath a title and get to the human being below. Usually that’s a defensive thing. I am not FIRSTNAME MIDDLENAME LASTNAME.
But followers of Carl (“Karl”) Lentz, Sovereign Citizen and renowned walrus imitator believe one can sue “trespassers” in a kind of do-it-yourself court process. The litigation here suggests that influence.
So I dug online for awhile and found the smoking gun, attached below. A fee schedule where an individual unilaterally assigns penalties to another. A classic pseudolaw document based on the concept that silence means consent, and one can foist contractual agreements on others. Fee schedules are a notorious tool of intimidation.
So, these are pseudolaw-based disputes. None of the relevant court decisions seems to indicate that, but the proof is in the substance of the litigation, rather than its label.
I counted nine reported tribunal and court decisions relating to this dispute. Off to the Supreme Court of Canada next, I suspect.
Your tax dollars at work.