What is the test for confidence in the integrity of the legal profession?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Laughlin (Re), 2019 LSBC 42 (CanLII):
In Law Society of BC v. Dent, 2016 LSBC 5 (CanLII), 2016 LSBC 05, the panel summarized the need to ensure the public’s confidence in the integrity of the profession as: will the public have confidence that the proposed disciplinary action is sufficient to maintain the integrity of the legal profession and specifically, will the public have confidence in the proposed disciplinary action when comparing it to similar cases?
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