What are the implications of the client identification rules in the context of identity theft?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Gregory (Re), 2021 LSBC 34 (CanLII):
The purposes of the client identification rules are “to ensure that the legal profession does not become an inadvertent participant in the improper processing of laundered money and that the fraud of identity theft is not aided and abetted by lawyers” (Law Society of BC v. Wilson, 2019 LSBC 25 at para. 21).
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