What is the effect of a decision by the Law Society of BC Discipline Committee to suspend a lawyer from practice for a one-month suspension?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Sahota (Re), 2019 LSBC 8 (CanLII):
The Discipline Committee applied for review of this decision. The subsequent review board decision increased the one-month suspension to three months and upheld the practice prohibition (Law Society of BC v. Sahota, 2018 LSBC 20). Although the events laid out in that citation predated the events of this citation and the citation was not issued until after the events of this case occurred, the matters raised are relevant to the current citation, particularly as the breaches and misconduct in both citations involve practices in the same area of law, namely real estate.
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