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GlenB embuggerance update: 27/03/26

Kind of a follow on to "K"'s last, courtesy of the UP LB weighs in...

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It pains me to do it, but I have my reasons that are ultimately aimed at helping Glen.

Here are just a few snippets from this thread that are over 2 years old:

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It is ghastly watching you spending so much time and energy on so much futile activity, Glen. As each day passes you are one step closer to being prevented from pursuing whatever legal rights you might have had. I hope it is genuinely therapeutic for you, because it’s not doing your chances of compensation much good.

The Chairman’s too busy to meet with you for at least the next 3 months. (Why you care if the Chairman attends is beyond me, but it’s your call.) The duration of the meeting has been halved from what you requested. Read the body language: They don’t care. If they cared, they would already have written you a big cheque.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the meeting were held on 23 October. Five years on. A meeting. What a breakthrough.

Captain, you must listen: You are past PNR on a track that confines you to being a minor inconvenience until fuel exhaustion. Please get your family to read this thread. All of it. Twice.

Please.

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Unless you pursue them aggressively with a suitably equipped legal team, they won't care. Without this, you are likely to experience firsthand a meeting where the DAS will nod sympathetically, express regret, but ultimately deny you what you are seeking or anything close to redress.

The meeting will be carefully controlled with security likely briefed if things get heated so you can be ejected. If that were to happen, it may actually suit their narrative.The ICC will bring a lettuce leaf to fan himself when things get hot.

What you're heading for is the bureaucratic equivalent of when a politician has to give an audience to a victim. There will be motherhood statements, perhaps an acknowledgement that things might change, but little chance of anything meaningful resulting.

If there was any chance of them offering you compensation they'd have a legal counsel on hand to get terms down. It's been made clear that this won't be happening, which means they've already decided they don't have to give you diddly squat.

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Glen,

To re-iterate my last post, get some legal help, fast.
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My considered consistent advice to you is get a lawyer. FAST, before you reach the point of no return, and expiry of deadlines to be able to do anything legally. Already the statute of limitations may apply and you have dithered and possibly lost any legal recourse.

You know they are laughing at you behind your back, don't you? Look at the terminology used to describe you in the Parliamentary submission. The only way they will sit up and take notice is in a court of law, or a Royal Commission, or an anti-corruption inquiry. In this context, they will quake and tremble, roll over and do your bidding.

Bite the bullet - get yourself some legal advice, and stop wasting your time.

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"The only recourse you have is legal action. Get the lawyers involved. Don't worry about costs - the judge will make the other party pay if you succeed. Your dithering may probably have cost you the case. You must act now. Stop being your own lawyer. Get a good legal team to advise you, now."

these are not nice people Glen - you will have to drag them screaming every inch of the way

get a lawyer!!

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You are getting nowhere fast with CASA Glen. Stop wasting your time writing to them, lawyer up NOW, and hit CASA with a very big claim for a very big sum of money.

Unless you do this, things aren't going to change.

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Glen, go to Court bloody right now! This has gone on way too long. FINISH IT! One way or the other! The Nuclear Option is way past due!

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Would a show of intended financial support for Glen, be appropriate at this stage?

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Not unless it will be spent on independent legal advice that Glen will - and this is the most important bit - heed.

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Glen I’m sorry but constant private letters to CASA are pointless. Get a good legal team who can apply pressure and scare them into a settlement or better beat them in court and get the buggars jailed!

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Glen,

I know you have a plan, you have mentioned legal.

It is becoming even more obvious that it’s time, certainly legal rep with you at the October meeting [with CASA].

After that it is time for full legal team. How much is in the gofundme? I’m sure if you were to fire up the legal option the donations would continue to roll in.

CASA know what you want and deserve but no offers to this point?

It’s time to say ok I’ve tried my best to be nice now it’s GLOVES OFF and handball all to the legal team and set an extremely high settlement bar.

Good luck!

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Glen, as much as enjoy your posts and appreciate the devastating affect that this has had (continues to have) on you and your family. I really think you need to listen to Thirsty and Malcolm Reynolds. Factor in the number of "likes" their posts have received. For each "like" there is probably x5 the number of people who agree.

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What Glen’s standing to bring an action on behalf of the CASA regulated corporate entity that’s the victim here has me perplexed. APTA was sold, and with it went its assets and liabilities. Live by the corporate veil..

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Indeed. Standing is among many formidable hurdles in Glen's way.

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I can see you all roll your eyes, push against your desk as you roll your office chair back, kick your legs up slightly, and whisper an obscenity slotted in between the two words, 'about" and "time". An example would be "about @#$&ing time"

After careful consideration of the entire matter, I had a brilliant and imaginative idea. I have decided to instruct lawyers in preparation for that meeting with Ms. Spence.

I have started working on the letter and hope to publish a draft on here.tomorrow night, or Saturday morning at the latest. I have had some behind the scenes support'. My intention is to have a three-page draft. No longer than that, as an introduction. Once published i would be appreciative of any feedback. Cheers. Glen

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Instructing lawyers: Good idea.

Publishing any correspondence about what you propose to tell them: Terrible idea.

If you’re going to instruct lawyers, you first need to find lawyers with the requisite expertise who are prepared to take instructions from you. You then give them instructions, confidentially, so that those communications attract and retain legal privilege.

And then they will ask you about things they need to know and, having considered what they need to know, they’ll advise you on next steps. Those communications will also attract legal privilege.

Though it will be a matter entirely for your lawyers and you, I anticipate that their first piece of advice will be: Now is the time to STFU be very reticent in publishing yet more material potentially containing admissions and inconsistencies that could be deleterious to your legal interests, even assuming that what’s been published so far hasn’t trashed them.

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I agree entirely with the sentiment of your post because Glen needs our continued support, more than ever.

I'd suggest just one tweak: That we all contribute (some of us again) to the 'GoFundMe' effort as soon as Glen has confirmed that he has engaged lawyers to fight his legal battle and that that's where the donated funds will be spent. That's where many of us thought the original donations were going to be spent and I reckon that if those donations had been spent on legal assistance, years ago, there'd have been a resolution - for better or for worse - by now.

(I'm not suggesting the originally donated funds have been misspent, but rather that they were not spent when and where they would have done most good.)
All more than 2 years ago.

The events that brought Glen down happened around 7 years ago.

Glen: Your supporters and GoFundMe donors - I'm one of them - deserve to know whether you have (1) attempted to engage lawyers to assist you and, if yes, (2) whether any of those attempts have been successful. I'm talking about whether you have entered into a written retainer agreement with a lawyer who has advised you or is advising you on whether and what causes of action might be open you, the prospects of success of those potential causes of action, if any, and strategies to maximise your prospects of success, if any. It's just a yes/yes, yes/no or no answer.

It is of course entirely up to you whether you give an answer but, as I say, I think we deserve one. My concern is that in all the circumstances it might be much better for you and your family if you just spent the GoFundMe funds on a holiday, rather than writing more futile letters.

MTF...P2