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Ontario Law Society faces criticism
An Ontario lawyer stole nearly Can$5m during the six and a half years that it took the Law Society of Upper Canada to investigate his case, according to CBC News.
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Now the Law Society is being urged to speed up its disciplinary processes. Philip Slayton, former law dean of the University of Western Ontario, has for many years criticised the system of self-investigation of complaints by local law societies. He says: ‘No law society wants to admit too easily that a member of the law society is a bad guy," he said in an interview. "The law society runs its disciplinary proceedings as it decides to do, so it draws up the rules. And I don't think that’s a good idea.’ Source: CBC News
