What is the test for deliberately making false or misleading statements in an application for a licence?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Muraru v. Law Society of Ontario, 2021 ONLSTH 78 (CanLII):
The hearing panel’s reasons in Awuku v. Law Society of Ontario, 2020 ONLSTH 152 at para. 63, address the act of deliberately making false or misleading statements in an application for a licence leading to a deemed disqualification under s. (8)2 of By-Law 4, which states: An applicant who makes any false or misleading representation or declaration on or in connection with an application for a licence, by commission or omission, is deemed thereafter not to meet, and not to have met, the requirements for the issuance of any license under the Act.
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