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Re: The Solicitor William Gilmour Case - A Question Of Ethics...



Solicitor William Gilmour is not your typical Canadian lawyer and I hope people reading this thread will not use him as a yardstick to measure the ethics and integrity of all Canadian lawyers. As you can see from this link he is not the only problem child of the Canadian legal community



Having said this, I must say that as a bencher for more than 5 years, the real problem is a corrupt Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC). To be direct, they charge lawyers annual dues every year which really amounts to "protection money". In return for private pay-offs that can be as much as $500,000 (depending upon the severity of the accusation) the LSUC will keep victims from calling the police or news media with their innocuous agreements (aka disclosure agreements). I found these articles online, and I am very sad to say that they are true.



http://projects.thestar.com/broken-trust/



http://www.canlaw.com/law-society/pr...l#.Ve_njMuwrIU



http://lawsocietyofuppercanada.wordpress.com











http://article.chinalawinfo.com/Arti...rticleId=86561



Also, as you know, the LSUC would never disclose the arrest record of any lawyer that is a member of the Law Society including Gilmour's arrest on August 14th, 2001 for child abuse, even though it is a matter of public record at the Peel Regional Police Department in Mississauga. By comparison, the American Bar Association provides transparency of a lawyer's arrest records, but the LSUC is all about secrecy.



What make matters even worse is that the LSUC cannot be sued for any of their wrong doings, even even if they obstruct justice. So yes, Gilmour may be a "bad apple" but the LSUC is the tree of corruption from which this apple fell. Solicitor William Gilmour is not your typical Canadian lawyer and I hope people reading this thread will not use him as a yardstick to measure the ethics and integrity of all Canadian lawyers. As you can see from this link he is not the only problem child of the Canadian legal community http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/...o-to-jail.html Having said this, I must say that as a bencher for more than 5 years, the real problem is a corrupt Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC). To be direct, they charge lawyers annual dues every year which really amounts to "protection money". In return for private pay-offs that can be as much as $500,000 (depending upon the severity of the accusation) the LSUC will keep victims from calling the police or news media with their innocuous agreements (aka disclosure agreements). I found these articles online, and I am very sad to say that they are true. http://www.lawtimesnews.com/20140512...uld-lsuc-be-re ... http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013...ase_spurs_ques ...Also, as you know, the LSUC would never disclose the arrest record of any lawyer that is a member of the Law Society including Gilmour's arrest on August 14th, 2001 for child abuse, even though it is a matter of public record at the Peel Regional Police Department in Mississauga. By comparison, the American Bar Association provides transparency of a lawyer's arrest records, but the LSUC is all about secrecy.What make matters even worse is that the LSUC cannot be sued for any of their wrong doings, even even if they obstruct justice. So yes, Gilmour may be a "bad apple" but the LSUC is the tree of corruption from which this apple fell.