lamba’s libel claims actually had nothing to do with the covid comments that were at the heart of the suit, a judge in that case noted. but galati had advised adding her unrelated claims to the court action , which centred around a colleague of lamba’s in a dissident medical group, the doctor charges.
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lamba’s suit was filed shortly after another covid-related setback for galati. a judge ordered him earlier this month to pay $132,000 in legal costs to a group of more moderate anti-lockdown activists in b.c. after quashing his libel suit against them. they had criticized galati online, in part to explain why they had not hired him to handle their own covid class action.
the case lamba is suing galati over centred mostly around another doctor, dr. kulvinder kaur gill . they are both leaders of concerned doctors of ontario, an organization that is harshly critical of the ontario medical association.
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regardless, a judge dismissed the suit in early 2022, and later ordered the plaintiffs to pay $1.1 million to cover legal expenses of the about two dozen defendants.
galati and colleagues at his firm kept her largely in the dark about the case, failed to give her a copy of the decision dismissing the libel suit and filed a “deficient” appeal of it, before leaving the case in 2022, lamba alleges. galati had recently endured a lengthy hospitalization, including being in a coma, said a court order releasing him from the case, posted online by the canucklaw.ca blog .
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