“Don’t forget that this government has made it a deliberate policy to reach out to the ethnic communities. If you’ve ever looked at [Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason] Kenney’s web site, there’s not a Vietnamese noodle festival or perogy fest he hasn’t invited himself to.”

PAIR OF LAWYERS DISBARRED
Two Toronto-area lawyers have lost their licences to practise, the Law Society of Upper Canada said last week.

Toronto lawyer Edmund Anthony Clarke was found to have engaged in professional misconduct for knowingly participating in fraudulent and dishonest conduct in order to induce or attempt to induce mortgagees to approve mortgage loans in favour of his spouse and preparing, delivering or registering falsified or unauthorized documents or instructing others to do so.

He must also pay the law society $1,000 in costs.
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It was Groundhog Day in Ottawa again last week. Following prorogation, the Conservatives are reviving their crime agenda. This is the fifth time around for them in four years.

Ontario’s first instance of criminal charges against a corporation under a recent federal law may be a signal authorities are taking a more aggressive approach to workplace safety following a recent public outcry.

In a faint echo of France’s ban against Muslim children wearing face veils in schools, a woman in Quebec has launched a human rights complaint against the province’s order that she remove her niqab in French class.

Lawyers fretting over the Law Society of Upper Canada’s impending continuing professional development requirement can rest easy — an activity you already engage in may well meet the criteria for mandatory credit hours.

Quebec lawyers will have an easier time practising in Ontario under a new agreement aiming to increase labour mobility.

LSUC all talk on women and legal aid

The letter from Law Society of Upper Canada Treasurer Derry Millar (“LSUC on women and legal aid,” Law Times, Jan. 11, 2010) about women in the legal profession and legal aid leaves an impression with which I simply cannot agree.

It is true that Convocation spent three years studying the issues confronted by women in the profession. And indeed, we studied it over a decade before that.

Sadly, what came out of the most recent intolerably lengthy study period was an ...

A Toronto immigration lawyer is continuing his battle over the acceptable age of Federal Court deputy judges, many of whom mainly handle immigration cases.