The Law Society self-regulation protects perps.
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The Law Society self-regulation protects perps.
The Law Society of Ontario declined an interview with CBC, and did not answer emailed questions about whether it investigated anyone for possibly failing their duty to make a report, or if it took any other action with respect to that duty.
Instead, the law society wrote that "it would be unusual for [it] to consider, after the fact, whether others should have brought the information" to its attention.
And scrutinizing lawyers "who may have had some information" could deter lawyers from helping people in situations like B's in the future, the law society argued, "due to fear" of being punished later on.
Rumours about lawyer who sexually harassed women had been circulating in legal community for years: docs | CBC News
Details from a cache of law society documents used by a tribunal to find that four women were sexually harassed by now-disbarred Ottawa lawyer James Bowie — details which have not been reported until now — raise troubling questions about what the capital’s legal community knew when, and whether colleagues should have spoken up before a client of Bowie’s blew the whistle in 2022.
CBC (www.cbc.ca)
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