So, nothing will come of this.
They treat client trust accounts as their personal piggy banks, facilitate multi-million-dollar frauds and drain retirement savings of the elderly.
While most lawyers caught stealing from their clients are reprimanded, suspended or disbarred by the profession’s regulator, the vast majority avoid criminal charges, a Star investigation reveals.
The Star found that more than 230 lawyers sanctioned for criminal-like activity by the Law Society of Upper Canada in the last decade, stole, defrauded or diverted some $61 million held in trust funds for clients.
Fewer than one in five were charged criminally. Most avoided jail.
“I truly believe there are two laws — a set of rules and regulations for lawyers and a different set for everyone else,” said Richard Bikowski, who was fleeced out of $87,500 by now-disbarred Toronto lawyer Lawrence Burns.
Unlike the law societies in most other provinces, the Law Society of Upper Canada does not, as a rule, report suspected criminal acts by its members to police, no matter how much money lawyers steal.
That would be the same Law Society of Upper Canada that “voted 28 to 21 against the accreditation of Trinity Western University’s proposed new law school in B.C.”
That would be the same Law Society of Upper Canada that “voted 28 to 21 against the accreditation of Trinity Western University’s proposed new law school in B.C.”
And that would be plain and simply because you can’t have lawyers with morals who would represent the people.
No lawyer in history has ever been bitten by a shark. Professional courtesy by the same species.
Liberty University School of Law graduates are allowed to write the provincial bar exams, as well as
Regent University (100% pass rate for first time writers of that state’s bar exam, compared to 70% of other Virginia university bar exam writers). If they pass in Canada, they’re fully accepted as lawyers in those provinces, and their conduct standards are no different from Trinity Western.
I can’t say how many have actually done this, if any, but it seems that if those folks in Ontario decide all graduates of US accredited schools can write, their decision to exclude Canadian graduates of “certain” schools based on this, doesn’t pass the smell test.
Perhaps in the future when Justin Trudeau is Prime Minister, he can decide which political beliefs don’t fit his standard here as well…
Regent University’s statement of faith, and how its education includes “sexual misconduct” ect…
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/admissions/honorcode.cfm
“… it is imperative that Regent University faculty, staff, and students conduct themselves in a Christ-like and professional manner, and maintain an exemplary and involved lifestyle. Regular church and chapel attendance, and participation in activities of the Regent community and its founding organization, are encouraged for students and expected for faculty and staff.”
wait.
ok it doesn’t “include sexual misconduct” … most here would figure out that typo, I think.
It includes “sexual misconduct” as a measure for being able to attend and graduate from this university.
uff.
Stealing money is easy…morals and ethics are hard.
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Is Grist: A Book of Essays
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
There really are two sets of laws, or rather several sets.
Self-regulating professions (lawyers, financiers, doctors) that “discipline” their own, are created to EXEMPT their own from the regular justice system.
When the law is brought into disrepute because those that have been privileged to be called to the bar, and the ones blessed with the authority to measure the character of those that would be called to that profession, those not so privilaged, those of us that may require their professional help due to legal issues, they ignore the fact that their authority is not awarded by divine right but from we who are governed, that the impulse the body public is to revert to mob rule.
If the chattering classes feel threatened by vigilante justice, then they ignore that the cause is the ones charged with maintaining the integrity of the justice system.
Justice system! There is no justice. And Canadians still continue to believe the myth that we are somehow better… At least in the rest of the world you know there is graft and corruption and you simple account for it. In Canada we have it too, and like in this story its even worse because they hide behind a false higher moral standard.
” It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” – George Carlin
The law societies are an integral part of the power elite from which most elites have come and from which they recruit – lawyers caught openly stealing get a pass. There are lawyers in government, in law administration, on the bench and they design the laws – you’re snookered before you even start.
How long will this go on? Well, it’s been going on for over 500 years, how do you intend to stop this type of institutionalized privilege – with a ballot? Dreamer.
Shakespear had it right, “we have to start by shooting all the lawyers”
A sweet elederly woman had her will revised.
She handed her lawyer a crisp new $100.00 bill for the work.
The lawyer noticed it was actually two bills stuck together.
His dilemma?
What does he tell his partner.
AHHH hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Nowhere is the lawyer clique better exemplified than in those nine Supreme Court appointees in Ottawa.
The usual suspects who now carp on at PM Harper for his effrontery in daring to take issue with the sainted Chief Justice of Canada are the same people who cheerfully and routinely savage the other components of our constitutional governing framework: the Senate, the Governor General and even the institution of the monarchy itself.
But – oh no! In our democracy, the highest lawyers in the land get a complete by and endless forelock-tugging from the press.
For some reason, it all makes me think of Dick The Butcher in “Henry VI Part II”.
“To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.”
Thanks for that superb quote from the great GK. Would that our so-called “institutions of higher learning” might hoist it aboard.
Oh, but better make sure they approve the h0m0 agenda of the GayKK or the CBC will call you out!
“…The law societies are an integral part of the power elite from which most elites have come and from which they recruit – … There are lawyers in government, in law administration, on the bench and they design the laws – you’re snookered before you even start.”
If it weren’t for lawyers, we wouldn’t need lawyers.
lawyers, the ultimate parasite.
Lawyers are a cancer on human society.
It does nothing but grows and suffocates free people.
It would seem the ultimate end will be the absolute totalitarian diktat that will eventually end with the trade being cast as low life bottom feeders.
You may notice that most socialist/fascists politicians are lawyers.
You may also notice that those that are everything else are much superior in running the ministries.
You nail it perfectly. Lawyers are right in there with used car salesmen and most journalists.
What do you mean …….. eventually……?
A laboratory doing experiments on various products for release to the market were asked why they used lawyers instead of rats. The answer was… you can get fond of rats, and lawyers will do things even rats won’t.
Look a lawyer is asking question.
Now there is a dilemma.
Do one answer and then has to wash and scrub all day and night?
Or
Does one leave it alone?
The thing is that a lawyer knows the lingo gymnastics and can answer his question himself.
End of story.
“If it weren’t for lawyers, we wouldn’t need lawyers.” Good one! Interesting to note that BC is instituting a dispute resolution process in which counsel is barred.
What happens when you give a lawyer a Viagra?
He becomes taller.
Remember the essay about “Laurentian Canadians” ? I think it was Rex Murphy ….
Well these guys in the LSUC are those Laurentian Canadians.
You’re a fine example of avoiding prosecution and wallowing up to three troughs.
“The former attorney general of Ontario is a recovering alcoholic; he had his last drink on March 7, 2006. And he also knows the pain and humiliation of a very public fall from grace. In 2009, he was charged with criminal negligence causing death, following the death of Toronto bike courier Darcy Allan Sheppard. An independent prosecutor withdrew the charges a year later.
“Today, Mr. Bryant is the chair of the Public Accountants Council of Ontario, and a consultant with Ishkonigan, a firm that assists First Nations in business initiatives. He is also a director at Toronto’s Pine River Institute, an addiction treatment centre for adolescents. He regularly speaks on addiction and public health issues.”
And that’s what your friends say about you!
http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/shows/2014/05/04/michael-bryant-on-rob-ford/
Oops, the previous comment was a reply to Michael Bryant.
One more reason to love the idea of a very small government that doesn’t do much: lawyers starve.
LSUC, what a bunch of hypocritical dirtbags…well they are lawyers after all. To all the future graduates of Trinity, good luck dealing with these scum. Keep an eye on them at all times and have someone watch your back.
So a Jew, a Hindu and a lawyer went for a drive one day and while out on some country back road their car broke down. Being late in the evening they spotted the lights of a farm house not far away. They sought the aid of the farmer who was willing to help them except he only had room in his house for two people. The Jewish fellow thought of a quick solution and volunteered to sleep in the barn. The farmer agreed and took the Hindu and the lawyer into the house. A few minutes later there was a knock on the door and there stood the Jewish fellow who explained that he couldn’t sleep in the barn because the farmer had a pig in the barn. The Hindu fellow took pity on the Jew and so he went to sleep in the barn. A few minutes later there was a knock on the door and there stood the Hindu who explained that he could not sleep in the barn because the farmer had a cow in the barn. After much cajoling and arm twisting and the threat of violence the lawyer agreed to sleep in the barn. A few minutes later there was a knock on the door. There stood the pig and the cow….
Tony Merchan.t. That’s all that needs to be said.
In some jurisdictions, a client can challenge his legal bill and require the lawyer to prove the claimed billable hours to an adjudicator.
We had one such case where the lawyer had added 10 hours (ie $4,000) to his bill. In the ultimate example of corrupt chutzpah, he wanted to bill the client for the time he spent lying to the adjudicator.
I will let the words of Henning Webb Prentis, Jr speak,who in 1943 said this in a speech entitled “Industrial Management in a Republic” during the 250th meeting of the National Conference Board.
“Paradoxically enough, the release of initiative and enterprise made possible by popular self-government ultimately generates disintegrating forces from within. Again and again after freedom has brought opportunity and some degree of plenty, the competent become selfish, luxury-loving and complacent, the incompetent and the unfortunate grow envious and covetous, and all three groups turn aside from the hard road of freedom to worship the Golden Calf of economic security. The historical cycle seems to be: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to apathy; from apathy to dependency; and from dependency back to bondage once more.
At the stage between apathy and dependency, men always turn in fear to economic and political panaceas. New conditions, it is claimed, require new remedies. Under such circumstances, the competent citizen is certainly not a fool if he insists upon using the compass of history when forced to sail uncharted seas. Usually so-called new remedies are not new at all. Compulsory planned economy, for example, was tried by the Chinese some three millenniums ago, and by the Romans in the early centuries of the Christian era. It was applied in Germany, Italy and Russia long before the present war broke out. Yet it is being seriously advocated today as a solution of our economic problems in the United States. Its proponents confidently assert that government can successfully plan and control all major business activity in the nation, and still not interfere with our political freedom and our hard-won civil and religious liberties. The lessons of history all point in exactly the reverse direction.”
Comparing the graft we see today to when this speech was made, it sounds pretty prophetic to me.
WalterF, are you sure it’s that Michael Bryant? I thought he was just laughing at LeDa’s joke above.
I’m reminded of an acquaintance who was billed by his legal counsel for a telephone call cancelling an appointment.
The Law Society of Upper Canada, like so many across the country, receives rent free space in court buildings throughout courtesy of the tax paying public. Some of the wealthiest organizations in the country are freeloading on the public’s dime. Isn’t that nice. And they were even kind enough to ban all from using those libraries save their members.
They should be charged just like everyone else using office or retail space in public buildings for commercial purposes.
Gary Marshall
That would be the same Law Society of Upper Canada that “voted 28 to 21 against the accreditation of Trinity Western University’s proposed new law school in B.C.”
I guess they don’t want any competition that has morals or values.
Most lawyers know the Judges & vice versa. They grew up together, interact each day,graduated from the same institutions. Go to the same clubs, have kids in the same schools. Live in the same neighbourhoods.
Probably even cheat on each others wives.
Yet we are supposed to believe Justice is done with no conflict of interest.
Maybe that’s how it used to be. But today, in the eyes of the leftists, a ‘citizen’ is a person who, when the government says “Jump!”, answers, “How high?”
Nobody else would self identify as Michael Bryant. He was laughing at the ‘laws are for the little people’ line.
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. Cade: Nay, that I mean to do. Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2,