What is the appropriate penalty for a lawyer who has been suspended because he is ungovernable?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Law Society of Upper Canada v. David Robert Conway, 2012 ONLSHP 2 (CanLII):

The panel is guided by and accepts the reasoning at paragraphs 22 and 27 of the decision in Law Society of Upper Canada v. Salomaa, CN57/00, in concluding that the suspended [Lawyer] is ungovernable, for which the appropriate penalty is revocation of licence.

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