B.C. 'alive woman' lawyer Naomi Arbabi suspended - update

A lawsuit filed by Naomi Arbabi against her neighbour has been dismissed as "frivolous and vexatious". Naomi Arbabi's claim of "trespass" against her neighbour Colleen McLelland was rejected. Arbabi decided McLelland trespassed upon her by obstructing her mountain view when the strata of their Fairview condo building installed a 1.7 metre-high glass divider. Arbabi said she appeared as "a living, breathing, alive woman," not a lawyer. Arbabi will pay special costs to McLelland. Lawyers make a professional oath promising they "will not promote suits upon frivolous pretenses."

The Law Society of British Columbia has suspended lawyer Naomi Arbabi on an interim basis following a complaint that she engaged in "pseudolegal" practices in order to harass her neighbour. Arbabi sued her neighbor in October, seeking $1,000 per day for erecting a 1.7-metre-tall privacy wall on her property that blocked Arbabi's ocean view. Arbabi's first notice of civil claim listed the defendant as "the woman: colleen mclelland," in small letters, and the plaintiff as "the woman: naomi arbabi." Throughout the lawsuit, she used a lower-case "i" to refer to herself. Her 'legal basis' for making the claim is that the suit is "based on law of the land", not any legislation or statute. Arbabi's law firm, Envision Law Group, seems to have gone taters up recently for some reason.

An affidavit of service was filed by a process server who knocked on Arbabi's door. The woman who answered said she was not Naomi Arbabi. The process server found Arbabi's photo online, and confirmed it was the person she'd just met, so she emailed Arbabi to ask for an explanation. Arbabi responded: "When you ask i if i am Naomi Arbabi the answer is always no as Naomi Arbabi is an incorporated name and does not refer to a living breathing woman." She explained that Naomi Arbabi was a "dead entity corporation" created by her birth certificate, and did not really exist.