Telemedia may be soliciting requests from charitable organizations, but the company is “playing fuh tek” – as they say in the game of marbles - with former employee Christine Perriot. Perriot confirmed to us today that all her family’s possessions, from the microwave oven and sofa set to their Isuzu Rodeo – have been marked to be crowfooted by BTL.
The company has asked the court to enforce a judgment for $24,000 in costs that the court awarded to Telemedia. It is for an Appeals Court ruling in 2008 when a Supreme Court judgment ordering Christine Perriot’s reinstatement was set aside and costs were awarded to BTL. Perriot says she had offered to pay a hundred dollars a week but claims that offer was rejected. We could not reach Telemedia attorney Andrew Marshalleck for comment.
And so, last week Thursday at seven in the morning, court officers appeared at her front door with a writ to execution to mark all the items which will be crowfooted and sold so as to recover the twenty four thousand dollars. Generally, those items are seized five days after they are marked but Perriot’s husband Paul Perriot has applied to the court on the grounds that the household items are jointly owned by them as a couple. So that has stalled the crowfooting for the time being, and it’s left to be seen if Telemedia will challenge the joint ownership claim made by Paul Perriot, who still works at the phone company.
And while her household assets are in limbo, interestingly, Christine Perriot still has a case against BTL for wrongful dismissal. All she has to find now is an attorney after the court of appeal recently found in Telemedia’s favour when it ruled that Lois Young cannot represent her. Costs in that case were also awarded to the utility – and are estimated to be in the range of thirty thousand dollars.
After an ugly and acrimonious departure from the City Council, Perriot is presently unemployed. BTL showed record earnings of $150 million last year.
