The Court dismissed a self-represented solicitor-plaintiff's notice of motion seeking to set aside orders of another judge under UCPR r 36.16(3A), finding that the applicant had filed no substantive evidence or submissions identifying any error in the original orders, had failed to comply with court directions for months, and had deliberately absented himself from the hearing. The Court reaffirmed that r 36.16 is to be exercised sparingly and is confined to correcting readily identifiable, inadvertent errors, not to permit disgruntled litigants to re-agitate determined issues. The Court also noted, without finally deciding, concerns that the application may have been filed as an abuse of process or purely to delay proceedings.
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