Can a solicitor be removed from the record who has a conflict of interest?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Song v. Westwood Plateau Golf & Country Club, 2016 BCCA 95 (CanLII):
It is not controversial that a court has the inherent jurisdiction to remove solicitors from the record who have a conflict of interest: Macdonald Estate v. Martin, 1990 CanLII 32 (SCC), [1990] 3 S.C.R. 1235 at 1245.
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