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(DEFENDANT)

MR SIMON CORDELL

DIRECTIONS ORDER

3. Our legal team was instructed that one
serious Incident took place in March 2018 where
the Defendant assaulted one of his neighbours. As
those acts were condemned by the interim
injunction order, we decided to issue an
application notice in Court for the Defendant’s
committal. The application was issued on 20
April 2018 and a hearing was listed in the
Edmonton County Court for the 01 May 2018,
10am.

4. I represented the Claimant at the hearing
of 01 May 2018 and the parties were called
approximately at 10.10am. The Defendant was
not present, so the case started in his absence. The
Defendant and his mother Lorraine Cordell
eventually arrived at 10.25am. Employment Judge
Taylor who was sitting in the Edmonton County
Court was going to proceed to start again.
However, the Defendant was unable to contain his
agitation and essentially shouted and swore at Mr
Mathiyalagan (one of our witnesses in the
committal application), Lemmy Nwabuisi (Anti-
social Behaviour coordinator officer for the
Claimant), his mother and the Judge. He made
some disparaging comments to me. The Judge
called in security; one security guard was not
sufficient and a second one was also called. The
Defendant was extremely agitated, was swearing
and refused to sit down and it did appear that he
may strike someone, the security guards were
between him and Mr Nwabuisi and Mr
Mathiyalagan. Ms Lorraine Cordell was unable to
calm her son down; Judge Taylor was unable to
calm him down and the security guards also could
not get him to back down. The Judge then
adjourned the hearing for a short period, and we
left the court room. We tried to locate a side room
to sit in, but none were available as the court was
particularly busy, there was also no sitting room.
5. We were called back into court a few
minutes later. The hearing proceeded with Mrs
Cordell representing her son in his absence; he