Is a lawyer who failed to communicate to his clients about his legal fees to their clients by email a breach of fiduciary obligations?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Perrick (Re), 2014 LSBC 3 (CanLII):
The Respondent’s failure to communicate to his clients with respect to his legal account was a breach of his fiduciary obligations to act in good faith towards his client (cf. Ladner Downs v. Crowley, (1987) CanLII 161).
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