Suspended Vancouver lawyer ordered to pay neighbour $30K for time spent dealing with pseudo-legal lawsuit
A suspended Vancouver lawyer who lost a "frivolous" lawsuit against her neighbour over a glass deck divider has been ordered to pay the woman nearly $30,000 in costs, likely bringing an end to a case that legal experts had described as highly unusual.
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![Lawyer Naomi Arbabi, shown at left in a photo from her law firm's website, is suing neighbour Colleen McLelland over a privacy divider on McLelland's deck. Two workers are shown at centre installing the glass divider in September 2023. A composite image shows a photo of Naomi Arbabi, a woman with long black hair wearing a black dress, next to a photograph of two men installing a divider on a deck overlooking downtown Vancouver and the North Shore mountains.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7025466.1705684843!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/naomi-arbabi.jpg)
A suspended Vancouver lawyer who lost a "frivolous" lawsuit against her neighbour over a glass deck divider has been ordered to pay the woman nearly $30,000 in costs, likely bringing an end to a case that legal experts had described as highly unusual.