Is it a professional misconduct offence for a member of the Law Society of BC to file an affidavit with false or misleading statements?

With respect to the issue of filing affidavits with false or misleading statements, the hearing panel in Law Society of BC v. Foo, [1997] LSDD No. 197, commented on the importance for lawyers to ensure accuracy in documents that will be relied on by the courts or other litigants: This matter of members of the Law Society causing documents which would be relied upon by other litigants and Courts, to be filed, is a very serious matter where the member permits this to be done knowing that the documents filed either contain errors or contain falsehoods. Next to defalcation of trust funds by a lawyer, knowingly taking a false affidavit is about as serious a breach of professional conduct as can occur.