What is the purpose of the Law Society Act, 1999?
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The following excerpt is from Shea v. The Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2020 NLSC 91 (CanLII):
The purpose of the Law Society Act, 1999, is to regulate the practice of law. I agree with Butler J. (as she then was) in the view that she expressed in Jane Doe v. Assn. of Registered Nurses of newfoundland and Labrador, 2016 NLTD(G) 22, at paragraph 10: that the primary purpose of statutes providing for self-regulating professions is to protect the public through the adoption and enforcement, by way of discipline and admission procedures, of standards of professional conduct.
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