How has the law society of BC dealt with professional misconduct claims against a lawyer who incurred debts to another lawyer?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lawyer 14 (Re), 2014 LSBC 63 (CanLII):
Finally, in Law Society of BC v. Melville, [2000] LSBC 5, the respondent lawyer incurred debts to another lawyer in 1994. When the accounts remained unpaid in late 1997, the other lawyer commenced an action to recover the debt, which was settled a year later. The hearing panel found that the respondent failed to fulfill financial obligations incurred in the course of his practice, which amounted to professional misconduct.
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