Can a lawyer be suspended or fined for breaches of the Rules of Civil Procedure for failing to inform or advise a client of settlement proposals?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Johnston (Re), 2013 LSBC 4 (CanLII):
In Law Society of BC v. Marsden, 2003 LSBC 47, that lawyer had: (a) failed to inform his client of settlement proposals; (b) entered into terms of a consent order without instructions to do so; (c) failed to inform or advise his client with respect to terms of an order; (d) failed to obtain instructions with respect to an affidavit from the opposing party; and (e) advised the court that he had forwarded an affidavit to his client and received no response when he knew or should have known that the affidavit had not in fact been forwarded to his client. In that case, the lawyer received a suspension of 30 days.
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