Can a lawyer be found guilty of professional misconduct by misleading opposing counsel by including a witness he knew was dead in his list of witnesses?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Perrick (Re), 2014 LSBC 3 (CanLII):
In Law Society of BC v. Addison, 2007 LSBC 12 (CanLII), the respondent was found to have committed professional misconduct by misleading opposing counsel by including a witness, who he knew was dead, in his list of witnesses.
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