They win!
It it with some sadness that I announce my premature surrender of license from the Law Society of Ontario, formerly known as the Law Society of Upper Canada. Luckily, I managed to continue in practice at least until my 65th birthday. I had hoped, like my sadly deceased mother, still to be working and be an example to the young lawyers at 85. Alas, it is not to be.
The events of the past few years have made it insurmountable to continue. I have the greatest of respect for the Canadian justice system in general, and give the facts herein in an effort to keep it true to its historic common law roots and the high minded principles of the Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights. According to Conrad Black, the Jesuits believe that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. I am speaking out only in an effort to get changes made in the regulation of lawyers in Ontario. Based on my experience I believe the current system of legal regulation is a gross deviation from what should be the norm in a free and democratic society. In particular, it is a myth that law societies conduct unbiased investigations; what they do is stage morality plays and show trials. In this website I will give the factual history and generally refrain from naming particular individuals and indulging in pejoratives to describe the behavior of many of the people with whom I have been forced to deal.
On page 3 of this website you will find a submission I made to the Retention of Women in Private Practice Working Group of the Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario) in 2008. My submission was not even acknowledged, and I certainly was not thanked for the time and thought I poured into it. Paragraph 60 of the Executive Summary of its Report states, "The Working Group recognizes that cultural and systemic change takes time." Their recommendations did little to address this problem, and to me it seems as if change is going in the wrong direction. I have run out of time to wait for the good changes that need to be made. Ever since I submitted my comments, my troubles with some staff people in the Law Society have been mounting. I did not expect my submission to be popular, but I did expect it to be received with open minds and hopefully to result in some changes for the better. I did not expect to pay such a heavy personal price for speaking the truth.
This is the short version of what happened. A longer version will be part of a forthcoming book Legal Terrorism: The LS At Work.
Read on! . . .
The events of the past few years have made it insurmountable to continue. I have the greatest of respect for the Canadian justice system in general, and give the facts herein in an effort to keep it true to its historic common law roots and the high minded principles of the Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights. According to Conrad Black, the Jesuits believe that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. I am speaking out only in an effort to get changes made in the regulation of lawyers in Ontario. Based on my experience I believe the current system of legal regulation is a gross deviation from what should be the norm in a free and democratic society. In particular, it is a myth that law societies conduct unbiased investigations; what they do is stage morality plays and show trials. In this website I will give the factual history and generally refrain from naming particular individuals and indulging in pejoratives to describe the behavior of many of the people with whom I have been forced to deal.
On page 3 of this website you will find a submission I made to the Retention of Women in Private Practice Working Group of the Law Society of Upper Canada (now the Law Society of Ontario) in 2008. My submission was not even acknowledged, and I certainly was not thanked for the time and thought I poured into it. Paragraph 60 of the Executive Summary of its Report states, "The Working Group recognizes that cultural and systemic change takes time." Their recommendations did little to address this problem, and to me it seems as if change is going in the wrong direction. I have run out of time to wait for the good changes that need to be made. Ever since I submitted my comments, my troubles with some staff people in the Law Society have been mounting. I did not expect my submission to be popular, but I did expect it to be received with open minds and hopefully to result in some changes for the better. I did not expect to pay such a heavy personal price for speaking the truth.
This is the short version of what happened. A longer version will be part of a forthcoming book Legal Terrorism: The LS At Work.
Read on! . . .
