Comment Re:Not a lot of people paying attention apparently (Score 1) 21
It's pretty wild how many people had to fuck up in order for this to get all the way to the Appeals Court.
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2. The filing lawyers' staff (assistants, paralegals, maybe a junior lawyer or articling student) who participated in the drafting.
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6. The judge's support staff, insofar as anyone was supporting on this case.
Generally assistants and paralegals may not have any part of false citations. They would be more involved with the processes than anything else. It is mostly on the lawyers who signed the filings. Any work submitted under their name is a reflection on them.
Also what did you responsibility do you expect of the judge's support staff? The judge's clerk and court reporter do very little research or look at the filings in detail. They are generally more involved with the processes like scheduling hearings, processing the filings, preparing transcripts for lawyers, etc. From what I can tell this was a state court handling a divorce case.