“Rather surprisingly, following the attendance at the conference, counsel for the Applicant sent another email to my assistant requesting that I read another medical letter. This time the other side was copied on the correspondence. The Respondent objected to me reading the second letter.
Communication with the court in this manner is unacceptable and contrary to the Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194. Mr. Pike should familiarize himself with r. 1.09 of the Rules which provides: “[w]hen a proceeding is pending before the court, no party to the proceeding and no party’s lawyer shall communicate about the proceeding with a judge or an associate judge out of court, directly or indirectly, unless,
(a) all the parties consent, in advance, to the out-of-court communication; or
(b) the court directs otherwise.” (emphasis added).