In a personal injury action, can a lawyer be found to be a conflict of interest?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Golden (Re), 2019 LSBC 15 (CanLII):
Elaborating upon the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest, the hearing panel in Law Society of BC v. Skogstad, 2008 LSBC 19, stated at para. 54: The evil to which that provision … is directed is the fear that an unsophisticated and unrepresented party in his or her dealings with a lawyer will develop the impression that the lawyer is representing them in circumstances where that impression is not accurate.
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