What is the effect of disbarment or revocation of a lawyer's licence?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Law Society of Upper Canada v. Stanley Charles Ehrlich, 2008 ONLSHP 72 (CanLII):
The imposition of the disposition of disbarment or revocation of licence is informed particularly by the over-riding public interest as enunciated in the case of Bolton v. Law Society, [1994] 1 W.L.R. 512.
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