Tag: competent lawyer
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Law Society of Upper Canada v Farkas, 2017 ONLSTH 75.
The lawyer in this case was a sole practitioner who primarily practised refugee law. He was responsible for supervising non-lawyers and two Hungarian interpreters when he delegated the task of preparing PIFs to a non-licensee. He did so with little supervision. The lawyer was found to have “breached Rules 2.01(2) and 5.01(2) of the Rules…