Can a lawyer who makes comments about the judiciary have a negative effect on the justice system?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Laarakker (Re), 2011 LSBC 29 (CanLII):
Further, in Law Society of BC v. Greene [2003] LSBC 30, the Respondent had made comments about another lawyer and members of the judiciary. The panel held (at paras. 34 and 35): Our occupation is one where we often deal in difficult circumstances with difficult people, and emotions often run high. It is not in the best interests of the justice system, our clients, and ourselves to express ourselves in a fashion which promotes acrimony or intensifies the stressfulness or the difficulty of those already stressful and difficult circumstances. Public writings or comments which promote such acrimony or denigrate others in the justice system have a negative effect upon the system as a whole. This is particularly true where it appears that the comments are made for no purposeful reason.
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