What is the penalty for a Licensee who has been found guilty of gross misconduct in a civil proceeding?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Law Society of Ontario v. Grant, 2022 ONLSTH 11 (CanLII):
The penalty must address the harm that the Licensee’s misconduct has done. It must serve the fundamental purpose of maintaining the reputation of the legal professions as ones in which “every member, of whatever standing, may be trusted to the ends of the earth”: Bolton v. The Law Society, [1993] EWCA Civ 32 at para. 15.
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