Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired)
@dnetolitzky.bsky.social
An Arcanaloth masquerading as a Microbiologist masquerading as a Lawyer. For now.
New academic publication on ideology of Australian “Sovereign Citizens”. Labels the phenomenon as (government) Illegitimacy, Individualism, and Immunity.
I’m not going to make a detailed analysis. There’s “local experts” who are better positioned on Australia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
I’m not going to make a detailed analysis. There’s “local experts” who are better positioned on Australia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
New academic publication on ideology of Australian “Sovereign Citizens”. Labels the phenomenon as (government) Illegitimacy, Individualism, and Immunity.
I’m not going to make a detailed analysis. There’s “local experts” who are better positioned on Australia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
I’m not going to make a detailed analysis. There’s “local experts” who are better positioned on Australia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Pseudolaw scholarship is expanding at an amazing pace. Here is the first article (that I know of) documenting the Polish variations. Patryk Król uses parallels in language, concepts & objectives to identify Polish pseudolaw groups. That's the Strawman.
www.abw.gov.pl/ftp/foto/Wyd...
Recommended!
www.abw.gov.pl/ftp/foto/Wyd...
Recommended!
January 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Pseudolaw scholarship is expanding at an amazing pace. Here is the first article (that I know of) documenting the Polish variations. Patryk Król uses parallels in language, concepts & objectives to identify Polish pseudolaw groups. That's the Strawman.
www.abw.gov.pl/ftp/foto/Wyd...
Recommended!
www.abw.gov.pl/ftp/foto/Wyd...
Recommended!
Honestly, I enjoy when judges move into cold clinical rage mode. Judge Stephanie Wanke of the Alberta Court of King's Bench issued a short piece sharply criticizing a failure to follow basic service rules in a foreclosure.
I've attached the whole thing. It's worth reading.
I've attached the whole thing. It's worth reading.
January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Honestly, I enjoy when judges move into cold clinical rage mode. Judge Stephanie Wanke of the Alberta Court of King's Bench issued a short piece sharply criticizing a failure to follow basic service rules in a foreclosure.
I've attached the whole thing. It's worth reading.
I've attached the whole thing. It's worth reading.
Investigation and analysis of pseudolaw is truly an expanding field. Now an academic in Hungary - Nóra Falyuna - is looking at the subject!
folyoirat.ludovika.hu/index.php/filologia/article/view/8132
inmediasresfolyoirat.hu/imr/article/view/294/567
folyoirat.ludovika.hu/index.php/filologia/article/view/8132
inmediasresfolyoirat.hu/imr/article/view/294/567
January 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Investigation and analysis of pseudolaw is truly an expanding field. Now an academic in Hungary - Nóra Falyuna - is looking at the subject!
folyoirat.ludovika.hu/index.php/filologia/article/view/8132
inmediasresfolyoirat.hu/imr/article/view/294/567
folyoirat.ludovika.hu/index.php/filologia/article/view/8132
inmediasresfolyoirat.hu/imr/article/view/294/567
Hey! You underemployed bums! Getcher ass to Australia and join the Common Law Sheriffs! You'll get a cool purple shirt!
commonlawsheriffs.au/become-a-com...
Policy Enforcement Officers are NOT welcome!
commonlawsheriffs.au/become-a-com...
Policy Enforcement Officers are NOT welcome!
December 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Hey! You underemployed bums! Getcher ass to Australia and join the Common Law Sheriffs! You'll get a cool purple shirt!
commonlawsheriffs.au/become-a-com...
Policy Enforcement Officers are NOT welcome!
commonlawsheriffs.au/become-a-com...
Policy Enforcement Officers are NOT welcome!
The Australian Law Journal in September published an issue entirely focused on pseudolaw. There's good stuff here - but warning, everything is paywalled at the moment.
If you have academic/professional access, I recommend taking a look.
Here's a link: search.informit.org/toc/auslawjo...
If you have academic/professional access, I recommend taking a look.
Here's a link: search.informit.org/toc/auslawjo...
December 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The Australian Law Journal in September published an issue entirely focused on pseudolaw. There's good stuff here - but warning, everything is paywalled at the moment.
If you have academic/professional access, I recommend taking a look.
Here's a link: search.informit.org/toc/auslawjo...
If you have academic/professional access, I recommend taking a look.
Here's a link: search.informit.org/toc/auslawjo...
Sigh. I am attempting to work up another research project. And I want to properly explain why an Ontario lawyer cited the "Eye of Isis Treaty" as a binding Canadian legal authority.
Attached is the most coherent description I've located for the document.
F'ing Enki.
(Not judicial review, tho!)
Attached is the most coherent description I've located for the document.
F'ing Enki.
(Not judicial review, tho!)
December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Sigh. I am attempting to work up another research project. And I want to properly explain why an Ontario lawyer cited the "Eye of Isis Treaty" as a binding Canadian legal authority.
Attached is the most coherent description I've located for the document.
F'ing Enki.
(Not judicial review, tho!)
Attached is the most coherent description I've located for the document.
F'ing Enki.
(Not judicial review, tho!)
This one made me laugh out loud.
Appeal to the SCC rejected. Appeal grounds appear to be that that the ABCA judge was biased because of favouritism to the ABKB judge.
Judges are buds to judges. So no appellant can ever get a fair hearing due to judicial bias.
SCC: Nope. (Surprised?)
Appeal to the SCC rejected. Appeal grounds appear to be that that the ABCA judge was biased because of favouritism to the ABKB judge.
Judges are buds to judges. So no appellant can ever get a fair hearing due to judicial bias.
SCC: Nope. (Surprised?)
December 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This one made me laugh out loud.
Appeal to the SCC rejected. Appeal grounds appear to be that that the ABCA judge was biased because of favouritism to the ABKB judge.
Judges are buds to judges. So no appellant can ever get a fair hearing due to judicial bias.
SCC: Nope. (Surprised?)
Appeal to the SCC rejected. Appeal grounds appear to be that that the ABCA judge was biased because of favouritism to the ABKB judge.
Judges are buds to judges. So no appellant can ever get a fair hearing due to judicial bias.
SCC: Nope. (Surprised?)
Full judgment is here:
Community Trust Company v Peart-Williams, 2025 ONSC 6753 (canlii.ca/t/kgt7c)
I'm not going to attempt to digest this. Just enjoy all the chewy, bloody goodness. Kudos to Justice Dennison for a clinical, merciless, methodical dissection.
Community Trust Company v Peart-Williams, 2025 ONSC 6753 (canlii.ca/t/kgt7c)
I'm not going to attempt to digest this. Just enjoy all the chewy, bloody goodness. Kudos to Justice Dennison for a clinical, merciless, methodical dissection.
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Full judgment is here:
Community Trust Company v Peart-Williams, 2025 ONSC 6753 (canlii.ca/t/kgt7c)
I'm not going to attempt to digest this. Just enjoy all the chewy, bloody goodness. Kudos to Justice Dennison for a clinical, merciless, methodical dissection.
Community Trust Company v Peart-Williams, 2025 ONSC 6753 (canlii.ca/t/kgt7c)
I'm not going to attempt to digest this. Just enjoy all the chewy, bloody goodness. Kudos to Justice Dennison for a clinical, merciless, methodical dissection.
Woman disputes operation of father's will. In wrong jurisdiction, after will already probated.
Father's will uses name in all capital letters. Woman invokes Strawman duality. Gets declared vexatious litigant.
Rusler Estate (Re), 2025 BCSC 2269: canlii.ca/t/kgjbl
Father's will uses name in all capital letters. Woman invokes Strawman duality. Gets declared vexatious litigant.
Rusler Estate (Re), 2025 BCSC 2269: canlii.ca/t/kgjbl
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Woman disputes operation of father's will. In wrong jurisdiction, after will already probated.
Father's will uses name in all capital letters. Woman invokes Strawman duality. Gets declared vexatious litigant.
Rusler Estate (Re), 2025 BCSC 2269: canlii.ca/t/kgjbl
Father's will uses name in all capital letters. Woman invokes Strawman duality. Gets declared vexatious litigant.
Rusler Estate (Re), 2025 BCSC 2269: canlii.ca/t/kgjbl
Criminal proceedings vs woman entering Canada, ignoring COVID-19 quarantine processes. She says she doesn't have to comply with any instructions of a mere corporation.
Doesn't work.
Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c Bastien, 2025 QCCQ 5392 - canlii.ca/t/kfwxx
Original in French.
Doesn't work.
Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c Bastien, 2025 QCCQ 5392 - canlii.ca/t/kfwxx
Original in French.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Criminal proceedings vs woman entering Canada, ignoring COVID-19 quarantine processes. She says she doesn't have to comply with any instructions of a mere corporation.
Doesn't work.
Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c Bastien, 2025 QCCQ 5392 - canlii.ca/t/kfwxx
Original in French.
Doesn't work.
Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c Bastien, 2025 QCCQ 5392 - canlii.ca/t/kfwxx
Original in French.
Reported Scottish pseudolaw cases aren't terribly common, making this of interest:
Together Commercial Finance Ltd v Smith, [2025] SAC (Civ) 22: www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/hzyppz...
It's a foreclosure appeal. Turns out declaring you're a "living man" doesn't miracle away court proceedings.
Together Commercial Finance Ltd v Smith, [2025] SAC (Civ) 22: www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/hzyppz...
It's a foreclosure appeal. Turns out declaring you're a "living man" doesn't miracle away court proceedings.
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Reported Scottish pseudolaw cases aren't terribly common, making this of interest:
Together Commercial Finance Ltd v Smith, [2025] SAC (Civ) 22: www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/hzyppz...
It's a foreclosure appeal. Turns out declaring you're a "living man" doesn't miracle away court proceedings.
Together Commercial Finance Ltd v Smith, [2025] SAC (Civ) 22: www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/hzyppz...
It's a foreclosure appeal. Turns out declaring you're a "living man" doesn't miracle away court proceedings.
My recent chapter “The Sun Only Shines on YouTube: The Marginal Presence of Pseudolaw in Canada” is now available online.
Subjects include Canadian pseudolaw from the 1950s, surveying numerous groups that have risen & disappeared, Canada-specific pseudolaw concepts (few), recent & peculiar trends.
Subjects include Canadian pseudolaw from the 1950s, surveying numerous groups that have risen & disappeared, Canada-specific pseudolaw concepts (few), recent & peculiar trends.
October 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My recent chapter “The Sun Only Shines on YouTube: The Marginal Presence of Pseudolaw in Canada” is now available online.
Subjects include Canadian pseudolaw from the 1950s, surveying numerous groups that have risen & disappeared, Canada-specific pseudolaw concepts (few), recent & peculiar trends.
Subjects include Canadian pseudolaw from the 1950s, surveying numerous groups that have risen & disappeared, Canada-specific pseudolaw concepts (few), recent & peculiar trends.
Happy (belated) Meads v Meads day, everyone. Thirteen years! Seems like yesterday.
I'm delighted to share that judgment is still pissing off pseudolaw types. Here pseudolaw guru "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger is demanding ChatGPT reject that authority.
It doesn't.
I'm delighted to share that judgment is still pissing off pseudolaw types. Here pseudolaw guru "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger is demanding ChatGPT reject that authority.
It doesn't.
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Happy (belated) Meads v Meads day, everyone. Thirteen years! Seems like yesterday.
I'm delighted to share that judgment is still pissing off pseudolaw types. Here pseudolaw guru "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger is demanding ChatGPT reject that authority.
It doesn't.
I'm delighted to share that judgment is still pissing off pseudolaw types. Here pseudolaw guru "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger is demanding ChatGPT reject that authority.
It doesn't.
Something unusual to share - a document I authored, but that I do not "own". Back in 2016 I prepared a "Bestiary" of pseudolaw documents, 17 different classes/types/examples. This was part of my old employment as a in-house lawyer with the Alberta Court of King's Bench.
www.bc.edu/content/dam/...
www.bc.edu/content/dam/...
August 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Something unusual to share - a document I authored, but that I do not "own". Back in 2016 I prepared a "Bestiary" of pseudolaw documents, 17 different classes/types/examples. This was part of my old employment as a in-house lawyer with the Alberta Court of King's Bench.
www.bc.edu/content/dam/...
www.bc.edu/content/dam/...
Just discovered Meads v Meads has been cited not once but twice on TV Tropes!
I'd tell Rooke, but, sadly, I know he wouldn't get what a popular culture triumph that represents.
Oh, the topics?
Frivolous Lawsuit (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...) and Author Filibuster (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...).
I'd tell Rooke, but, sadly, I know he wouldn't get what a popular culture triumph that represents.
Oh, the topics?
Frivolous Lawsuit (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...) and Author Filibuster (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...).
August 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just discovered Meads v Meads has been cited not once but twice on TV Tropes!
I'd tell Rooke, but, sadly, I know he wouldn't get what a popular culture triumph that represents.
Oh, the topics?
Frivolous Lawsuit (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...) and Author Filibuster (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...).
I'd tell Rooke, but, sadly, I know he wouldn't get what a popular culture triumph that represents.
Oh, the topics?
Frivolous Lawsuit (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...) and Author Filibuster (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...).
Most of what is written about pseudolaw comes from academics, so-called "experts" (like me!), and lawyers.
We don't often see the judicial perspective. That makes the "Sovereign citizens: ideology, impacts and judicial responses" chapter in the "Handbook for Judicial Officers" interesting.
We don't often see the judicial perspective. That makes the "Sovereign citizens: ideology, impacts and judicial responses" chapter in the "Handbook for Judicial Officers" interesting.
July 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Most of what is written about pseudolaw comes from academics, so-called "experts" (like me!), and lawyers.
We don't often see the judicial perspective. That makes the "Sovereign citizens: ideology, impacts and judicial responses" chapter in the "Handbook for Judicial Officers" interesting.
We don't often see the judicial perspective. That makes the "Sovereign citizens: ideology, impacts and judicial responses" chapter in the "Handbook for Judicial Officers" interesting.
Most discussion of pseudolaw is based on review of written court judgments. That misses the drastic negative effects on court staff and judges.
Those are reviewed in this recent preprint concerning Australian courts:
unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/pub...
Pretty alarming stuff. Worth the read.
Those are reviewed in this recent preprint concerning Australian courts:
unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/pub...
Pretty alarming stuff. Worth the read.
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Most discussion of pseudolaw is based on review of written court judgments. That misses the drastic negative effects on court staff and judges.
Those are reviewed in this recent preprint concerning Australian courts:
unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/pub...
Pretty alarming stuff. Worth the read.
Those are reviewed in this recent preprint concerning Australian courts:
unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/pub...
Pretty alarming stuff. Worth the read.
Just a reminder of the extent to which the Canadian legal system emphasizes accommodation.
Behold! Fursuiters (or feathersuiters) loose in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Behold! Fursuiters (or feathersuiters) loose in the Supreme Court of Canada.
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just a reminder of the extent to which the Canadian legal system emphasizes accommodation.
Behold! Fursuiters (or feathersuiters) loose in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Behold! Fursuiters (or feathersuiters) loose in the Supreme Court of Canada.
I've just published in the Alberta Law Review what I believe is the first broad analysis of how pseudolaw is deployed in criminal litigation, in this case in Canada:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Hope you find that of interest! Questions and comments are most welcome.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Hope you find that of interest! Questions and comments are most welcome.
March 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I've just published in the Alberta Law Review what I believe is the first broad analysis of how pseudolaw is deployed in criminal litigation, in this case in Canada:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Hope you find that of interest! Questions and comments are most welcome.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Hope you find that of interest! Questions and comments are most welcome.
Another setback for Ontario lawyer Glenn "Spirit Warrior" Bogue. He's one of the rare trained lawyers who advances pseudolaw, then suspended by the Law Society of Ontario in 2017.
Glenn does not care. He continues to attempt to appear in court. He is Metis, and therefore outside anyone's control.
Glenn does not care. He continues to attempt to appear in court. He is Metis, and therefore outside anyone's control.
March 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Another setback for Ontario lawyer Glenn "Spirit Warrior" Bogue. He's one of the rare trained lawyers who advances pseudolaw, then suspended by the Law Society of Ontario in 2017.
Glenn does not care. He continues to attempt to appear in court. He is Metis, and therefore outside anyone's control.
Glenn does not care. He continues to attempt to appear in court. He is Metis, and therefore outside anyone's control.
Two factually opposite privacy screen lawsuits! Canadian former lawyer Naomi Arbabi was a property owner who wanted a privacy screen removed.
Here, Australian 'Cil': Cilla‑Louise: of the Family: Carden: the living breathing woman' wants her privacy screen up.
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Here, Australian 'Cil': Cilla‑Louise: of the Family: Carden: the living breathing woman' wants her privacy screen up.
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
March 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Two factually opposite privacy screen lawsuits! Canadian former lawyer Naomi Arbabi was a property owner who wanted a privacy screen removed.
Here, Australian 'Cil': Cilla‑Louise: of the Family: Carden: the living breathing woman' wants her privacy screen up.
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Here, Australian 'Cil': Cilla‑Louise: of the Family: Carden: the living breathing woman' wants her privacy screen up.
www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Came across another Canadian promoter, Angela Albright aka “©BOWOLIN,Angela™ Estate Appointed Agent” who operates the Sovereign By Design (sovereignbydesign.com) website.
Dates from 2020. Her website has the usual pseudolaw suite of concepts, for example duality of law, Strawman Theory.
Yawn.
Dates from 2020. Her website has the usual pseudolaw suite of concepts, for example duality of law, Strawman Theory.
Yawn.
March 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Came across another Canadian promoter, Angela Albright aka “©BOWOLIN,Angela™ Estate Appointed Agent” who operates the Sovereign By Design (sovereignbydesign.com) website.
Dates from 2020. Her website has the usual pseudolaw suite of concepts, for example duality of law, Strawman Theory.
Yawn.
Dates from 2020. Her website has the usual pseudolaw suite of concepts, for example duality of law, Strawman Theory.
Yawn.
I've been waiting for pseudolaw gurus to turn to LLM AIs. Sure enough, here's "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger engaging ChatGPT about Strawman Theory.
And it doesn't go terribly well, which leads to lots and lots of arguing.
Not a bad job, ChatGPT.
And it doesn't go terribly well, which leads to lots and lots of arguing.
Not a bad job, ChatGPT.
March 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I've been waiting for pseudolaw gurus to turn to LLM AIs. Sure enough, here's "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger engaging ChatGPT about Strawman Theory.
And it doesn't go terribly well, which leads to lots and lots of arguing.
Not a bad job, ChatGPT.
And it doesn't go terribly well, which leads to lots and lots of arguing.
Not a bad job, ChatGPT.
Fun pseudolaw failure in an Australian child access matter, featuring that noted North Carolina jurist of the 1700s, Lord Denning!
Yeah, you know, the other one.
Full decision here:
www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Yeah, you know, the other one.
Full decision here:
www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Fun pseudolaw failure in an Australian child access matter, featuring that noted North Carolina jurist of the 1700s, Lord Denning!
Yeah, you know, the other one.
Full decision here:
www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...
Yeah, you know, the other one.
Full decision here:
www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...