This is painful to admit but the Law Society does not really protect the public. If you have a problem with a lawyer in Canada - go to the police directly and file criminal charges. Going to the Law Society is a waste of your time and hopes for justice. They are not your advocate. They exist only to protect their members and make money from them with hefty membership fees and the interest money from their trust funds. Here is a case of a very aggressive and bold predatory lawyer lawyer named Solicitor William Gilmour. Guess how many complaints were filed against him? I know of two but there could have been 50 or even more, but the Law Society won't even tell you that even one was filed against him, EVEN IF HE WAS DISBARRED IN ANOTHER COUNTRY OR PROVINCE!
Read this complaint for yourself and see if this guys past should be hidden or plastered on city billboards in your opinion...http://gilmourlawsocietycomplaint.wordpress.com One week before the Law Society of Upper Canada told me this guy was a member in good standing, he was arrested on August 14th, 2001 for child abuse! How the hell can he be endorsed by the Law Society?
Now then, ask yourself how anyone in their right mind could dismiss a complaint like this? Now check this out... a witness list of 19 people was provided to the law society by the victim yet not even one of them were contacted, much less interviews by any "investigator". Furthermore the victim says he was never given any reason why the complaint was dismissed, the name of the investigator, nor any information on how to appeal the decision. The law society is a joke - just an old boys club of fellow thieves who watch each other's backs. But they have a nice cafeteria and lounge for their accused lawyers to relax.
http://www.canlaw.com/law-society/pr...l#.Ve1sxJc3U00
http://projects.thestar.com/broken-trust/
http://lawsocietyofuppercanada.wordpress.com
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/20051128...contact-police
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...uiet-1.2764948
If anyone out there disagrees with me, I would love to debate this issue with you here and now. IMO, there is no reason the public is not entitled to have the Law Society complaint record of any and all attorneys in Canada. Who can possibly disagree and why?