DENIS J. POWER
This judge suffers what
is called "court rage" and falls into the small category that can be best
described as “the underbelly of the judiciary”. For this web site, plain
language has to be avoided but feel free to use your brain while reading this
web site.
Denis Power was civil
litigator and a partner in law firm Nelligan-Power famous for its close
connections to the Liberal party. His incredible legal knowledge is only
exceeded by his arrogance.
Since becoming a judge,
he has left a trail of destruction in family court, and this is probably the
reason why he is not generally scheduled to sit on family court matters and is
more likely to appear to sit on civil litigation matters where he does have
some experience.
Ask any experience
lawyer in Ottawa and they will tell you he suffers from a familiar illness to
the judiciary called “judgitis” which simply means he has been a judge too long
and unfortunately he is unlikely to ever admit that he is unsuitable to be a
judge and society will be burdened with a never ending flagrant abuse of
judicial power.
Denis Power generates
more complaints to the Ottawa Men’s Centre than any other single judge just
leading Aitkin and Desusa.
Justice Denis Power is
hell bent on enforcing his god like powers with scant regard to the fundamental
principles of law.
Denis Power is what is
called “a fem box”, that is in family court he will engage in the unofficial
legal process called “The Process of Justification” and to provide an example,
in one recent case of September 2006, Denis Power lowered a mother’s declared
income by 30% and imputed an income to the father of around 40% higher and
ordered spousal support when in reality both earned a similar income and the
mother had failed to comply with several dozen undertakings any one of which
probably would have shown that she was coming before the court with some very dirty
hands, something that Denis Power knew or ought to have known but chose to
ignore so he could make a decision for the mother.
Back in January 2001,
Denis Power issued a restraining order against a father permanently prohibiting
him from entering the City of Kingston, not because of any threats or potential
of violence but because he “litigated” which he called harassment of the mother
even though another judge had recently ordered a fast track trial of custody
when the father provided that judge evidence that the original order had been
obtained by fraud, the evidence of the fraud resulted in 5 criminal charges
against the mother. Denis Power claimed to have read the pleadings and said “I
can’t understand how the police laid the charges” when the charges were in fact
laid by a JUDGE, in an extraordinary exercise of discretion. In the same
matter, Denis Power stated “I can’t do anything about the order for a trial of
custody but I can issue a restraining order and I will do so”. The entire transcripts of that proceeding
will be posted shortly on this web site.
Almost every month,
another father files a complaint about Superior Court Judge Denis Power with www.OttawaMensCentre.com and the
complaints never end. Don’t ever underestimate how dangerous Denis Power is, he
acts with impunity with criminal immunity.
The moral of this story
is , if you ever have “Superior Court Judge” Denis Power, do not try and
represent yourself, he appears to have a pathological hatred of anyone who is
self-represented and if you are a father, you need a very experienced lawyer
who understands the “realities of family law”.
If you are looking for a lawyer make sure you ask if the lawyer is familiar
with Denis Power. Many experienced lawyers have stories of their own
experiences with Denis Power and will only repeat them in confidence. If you
are thinking of representing yourself, you need to think of the risk of running
across the likes of Denis Power. In law you often only get one kick at the can
and Denis Power will make decisions specifically designed so that the victim is
most unlikely to ever get a second kick at the can and of course, to ensure
that his dirty deeds are never successfully reversed and exposed.
If you have any interesting
unreported decisions of this judge please send us a copy in word, wpd, rtf,
html, or pdf at 400dpi.
LATEST NEWS:
20060128 Peter Roscoe v. Kendra Roscoe
- Justice Denis Power made a decision that Peter Roscoe was a vexatious
litigant when in fact, Denis Power found that there was some merit to his
application which was partially successful. Here is a classic example of a
flagrant abuse of judicial power by Justice Denis Power.
20040716 Kingston Lawyer John T. Zuber wins his appeal before Justice
Denis Power for removing stumps
Note:
Justice Denis Power regularly works in the Kingston courts which is where John
T. Zuber has his law practice.