The Honourable Mr. Justice Robert A. Riopelle
An informed opinion.
First, you need to know that Robert A. Riopelle was a former Timmins lawyer who rarely did anything other than real estate and suddenly in 1999 he was appointed a Superior Court Judge.
In Timmins, the legal profession wishfully hoped that perhaps he might bring a fresh approach.
First, he knows very little about family law, his underlying principle is that children belong with the mother.
Perhaps it has something to do with the well known dysfunction in his own family. But don't hold your hopes that he is about to take one of the famous Timmins parenting courses. Its simply too late.
In court, Riopelle is like he is in private and public life, he is a political animal who will stoop to the some of the lowest acts contrary to law to win "brownie points" from those who will have to repay the favour at some later date.
In Timmins he has made numerous awards for custody to mothers in spite of incredible and overwhelming evidence that the mother was a danger to the children.
He makes decisions that will help his friends in law and most importantly former clients.
In one case as a lawyer he represented the mother in her real estate business and as soon as he became a judge issued an order that the father be searched by security every time he entered a courtroom.
If you are looking for connections, don't look to far, just look at the key power holders in the Timmins area.
Don't bother appealing a decision of a Provincial level judge from the Ontario Court of Justice if Riopelle will hear the matter.
Riopelle is ethically corrupt and an insult to the legal profession and apparently now he seeks to further increase his power and authority by becoming Liberal politician.
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The news item below is the first one where the OMC has spotted anything in the press about Robert A. Riopelle.
There is however lots of case law that makes interesting reading but does not really reveal much about what you need to know about Robert A. Riopelle.
20050730 ‘No place I would rather be now,’ PM says -Riopelle Timmins latest Liberal nominee"