What is the impact of stress on a lawyer's conduct?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Law Society of Upper Canada v. David Buzaglo, 2006 ONLSHP 60 (CanLII):
In the case of Law Society of Upper Canada v. Reilly, [1995] L.S.D.D. No. 140, the Hearing Panel commented on the effect of stresses, as follows: It is exactly when the stresses are the greatest, when compliance with our profession’s rules of conduct are most difficult that members must faithfully hew to the line. Those are the times when lawyers must be worthy of being “trusted to the ends of the earth,” no matter what difficulties they face.
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