What is the importance of complying with court orders?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Mckinley (Re), 2019 LSBC 20 (CanLII):

In Law Society of BC v. Scholz, 2009 LSBC 33, the review board quoted with approval the following statement made by the hearing panel on the importance of complying with court orders (cited at para. 59):

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