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Perry Mason: "Your Honour, I object!"Greatest lawyer of all time.
Perry Mason: "Your Honour, I object!"Greatest lawyer of all time.
Did Perry Mason ever get Marisa Tomei an Oscar?Perry Mason: "Your Honour, I object!"
And people - usually the mucky mucks who look down on us peasants - wonder why we peasants actually don't admire them and wait on them hand and foot.Ummm, forgive me, but child sex abuser and person of good character don't really go hand in hand with each other...any more than sexual abuse of anyone or thing, considering I seem to recall that the CCofC frowns on that in general and particular. If they're actually on trial for that and they've awaiting a deliberation, well fine, except that being on trial for that (or any other criminal matter) should hold up their ability to be called to practice until it's settled as not guilty. I'm sure @FJAG might have something to add...
Like everything one has to look at the evidence given before the tribunal in question. Obviously there is a disagreement between the Law Society which did not want to licence him and the appeal panel that heard his appeal from that decision.Ummm, forgive me, but child sex abuser and person of good character don't really go hand in hand with each other...any more than sexual abuse of anyone or thing, considering I seem to recall that the CCofC frowns on that in general and particular. If they're actually on trial for that and they've awaiting a deliberation, well fine, except that being on trial for that (or any other criminal matter) should hold up their ability to be called to practice until it's settled as not guilty. I'm sure @FJAG might have something to add...
Interesting....Like everything one has to look at the evidence given before the tribunal in question. Obviously there is a disagreement between the Law Society which did not want to licence him and the appeal panel that heard his appeal from that decision.
I'll simply drop the appeal panels decision here to let people form their own opinions.
I won't get into a rant over this - was never a member of the BC bar and only lived in BC for 11 weeks when doing my initial Basic Officer Trg.British Columbia to disband the bar, replace with a new regulator that would include paralegals and other related occupations.
Despite the new board having a majority of lawyers, the Bar is upset.
Law Society of BC to be disbanded under new legislation
The new law means, in theory, you will be able to have broader access to legal services at a more affordable rate than lawyers. One stakeholder suggests lawyers opposed to the move wish to perpetuate a system that 'does not work for so many people.'www.vancouverisawesome.com
British Columbia to disband the bar, replace with a new regulator that would include paralegals and other related occupations.
Despite the new board having a majority of lawyers, the Bar is upset.
Law Society of BC to be disbanded under new legislation
The new law means, in theory, you will be able to have broader access to legal services at a more affordable rate than lawyers. One stakeholder suggests lawyers opposed to the move wish to perpetuate a system that 'does not work for so many people.'www.vancouverisawesome.com
“The power that the Law Society of B.C. has to regulate, discipline, and disbar lawyers is too great to be left in the hands of B.C. government-controlled or influenced appointees.”
––Michael Elliott
Arbitrarily removing a privilege is also an injustice. But it's not just a privilege, its an important aspect for keeping a democratic society free.Bah. The barristers and solicitors of the left coast are upset that rather than taking over the paralegals and notaries they as a group will instead be subject to greater scrutiny.
Professional self regulation is a privilege, not a right.
Note that Dick is a villainous character—he is a large, threatening murderer, and he is also the right-hand-man of Jack Cade, who is leading a rebellion against King Henry. Cade and Dick are aggressively anti-intellectual; they kill anyone who can read and burn all the books and documents they encounter. They know that they’ll be able to take over an ignorant population with greater ease than one where everyone understands their rights.DICK: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
Describing the long established practice of legislative delegation through the creation of regulations as "diktat" is not the claim of a credible author. The "indirect government appointees" will in fact be selected by the elected benchers (of all three member types, with lawyers in the majority) and government appointees. Thus, elected benchers will be selecting the remainder.
Mr Elliott's screed notwithstanding, I would like to read some credible opposition.
A bit yes and a bit no.Describing the long established practice of legislative delegation through the creation of regulations as "diktat" is not the claim of a credible author. The "indirect government appointees" will in fact be selected by the elected benchers (of all three member types, with lawyers in the majority) and government appointees. Thus, elected benchers will be selecting the remainder.
Mr Elliott's screed notwithstanding, I would like to read some credible opposition.
It may, but I doubt they SCC will interfere. In a previous case the SCC said:I can see this going to the Supreme Court.
“The independence of the bar from the state in all its pervasive manifestations is one of the hallmarks of a free society. Consequently, regulation of these members of the law profession by the state must, so far as by human ingenuity it can be so designed, be free from state interference, in the political sense, with the delivery of services to the individual citizens in the state, particularly in fields of public and criminal law. The public interest in a free society knows no area more sensitive than the independence, impartiality and availability to the general public of the members of the Bar and through those members, legal advice and services generally.” (Emphasis Added)
A.G. Can. v. Law Society of B.C., 1982 CanLII 29 (SCC), [1982] 2 SCR 307 at 335–336.
JAIL - for a very very long time..Threaten to have someone's children seized unless they perjure themselves in front of a judge you're having a long term affair with? Ignore the detective who works with you to put innocent Black Americans into jail while he runs a sex trafficking business on the side?
Kansas prosecutor who framed innocent man surrenders law license, will soon be disbarred
Terra Morehead, who retired as a federal prosecutor last August, has agreed to turn over her law license as part of an agreement with a Kansas disciplinary board. As a Wyandotte County prosecutor in the 1990s, Morehead helped KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski frame an innocent man who spent 23...kansaspublicradio.org
In a proposal under Rule 4-29 of the Law Society Rules, Lauer admitted to committing 11 instances of professional misconduct between January and August 2021, including five instances of misappropriation totaling nearly $10,000, two instances of breaches of accounting rules, three instances of failure to provide clients with the quality of service expected of a competent lawyer, and one instance of misrepresenting to a client the status of their matter. Three of the misappropriations involved client trust funds and two involved funds from a law firm.