But the case may have as much to do with Sandra Anderson’s bizarre “pseudo-law” beliefs, which assert that the Canadian legal system is invalid and have put her in repeated conflict with Alberta courts.
Another judge described Anderson in 2022 as a “litigation terrorist” and a “greedy, uncooperative, abusive scofflaw” after she claimed she had no obligation to make mortgage payments on her condominium. The judge handed the condo over to her bank. Anderson has also invoked strange “sovereign-citizen” ideas to try to avoid paying fines for smuggling high-priced horses from the U.S., and evade criminal charges that included impaired driving, fraud and transporting fireworks on an airplane.
The Andersons’ lawyer could not be reached for comment by deadline. But in court documents the sisters ask that the judgment be set aside, refuting the defamation allegations and calling the damages “grossly excessive.”
Jonathan Denis, the lawyer handling the libel action disagreed, saying the seven-figure award was fair in light of the numerous judgments against Sandra Anderson for flooding the courts with made-up legal gambits – many in violation of previous judicial orders.
SOURCE: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/alberta-oil-heiresses-ordered-to-pay-6-6-million-in-damages-for-libelling-calgary-lawyer