David Thomson
725 Franklyn
Road
Kelowna, British
Columbia
September 27,
2005
Roy
Sommerey
C/o Doak
Shirreff
Via email
Leon Avenue, Kelowna,
B.C.
Fax (250) 763-4780
Having
turned your proposal over in my mind for more than a week, now, I’ve come to the
conclusion that no matter how I turn it, your proposal is simply unacceptable.
You
propose that I pay your firm $ 300.00
per month, on top of my $ 532.00 monthly 1st mortgage payment. While
$ 300.00 per month might be equivalent to “lunch money" for you and your client,
it would leave me with $ 14.00 per month for all of my groceries
and daily necessities. The additional $ 410.00 per month that I receive as
“rental income” barely covers the costs of heat, hydro, water, insurance,
etc.
Your
client is already aware, having canvassed my mortgage provider (of 20 years,
now) in 1997, that they are unwilling to extend my credit further, even as
little as $ 7,500.00. As
such, I have been actively engaged in seeking a new 1st mortgage
lender, hoping to secure enough funds to encompass my debt to you and also, in
order to qualify, must also satisfy the judgment that the Lawyers’ Insurance
Fund holds in Marc Whittemore’s name.
Therefore,
I propose that if you are indeed sincere in stating that you do not wish to sell
my home and that if your client, Mr.
Hardwick is sincere in his wish to show “mercy” on me, that you come up with
an adjusted sum total, your “bottom dollar”, that would reasonably reflect my
limited ability to secure sufficient funds to pay your judgment, yet large
enough to satisfy your needs.
The
rest of the conditions in your
proposal have nothing to do with your judgment to sell my home and amount to
no less than an attempt on your part to extort my right to free
speech.
In
closing, let me be clear. I came to your law firm, a victim of criminal fraud,
having lost, as your client put it, “the lion’s share of the sale price of my
business”. While you and your client only ever wanted to be paid, I only ever
wanted your client to perform the work that he agreed to perform. Out of that, I
would have happily paid, commensurate with the outcome of the work that was
performed. Mr. Hardwick saw fit to quit without living up to his agreement to
me, leaving me without any resources to pay his substantial
fees.
Yours
ver truly,
David
Thomson
c.c.
Hazel Cords – Lawyers’ Insurance Fund: fax (604) 682- 5842, Susan Volkmann –
Interior Health, et al