Under rule 6.1-1, a lawyer must directly supervise staff and assistants to whom the lawyer delegates tasks and functions. The burden rests on the lawyer to educate a non-lawyer concerning the duties that the lawyer assigns to the non-lawyer and to supervise the manner in which duties are carried out, and the work should be reviewed at sufficiently frequent intervals.
Similar to the Rules of Professional Conduct set out by the Law Society of Alberta, the Newfoundland Code of Conduct sets out a series of tasks that lawyers are not permitted to assign to non-lawyers.
Rule 6.2-2 indicates that a supervising lawyer is responsible for the actions of students acting under his or her direction and to provide meaningful training and exposure to and involvement in work that provides students with knowledge and experience with respect to the law.
Rules 6.3-3 to Rule 6.3-5 require that lawyers not sexually harass, engage in any other form of harassment or discrimination against any person. However, like the other Rules of Professional Conduct, students are not regulated against harassment or discrimination towards lawyers/ supervisors.
Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, Code of Professional Conduct (Newfoundland and Labrador: Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2020) rule 6.
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