The B.C. Securities Commission has appointed high-profile Crown prosecutor Teresa Mitchell-Banks, Q.C., as its new director of enforcement, effective Oct. 10.
The commission also appointed Peter Brady, a former lawyer with the commission and now general counsel of QTrade Financial Group, as its new director of corporate finance, effective Oct. 24.
Mitchell-Banks currently works as deputy director of criminal appeals and special prosecutions for the B.C. minister of justice, which has been aggressively prosecuting organized crime figures such as the notorious Bacon brothers.
David Baines – Vancouver Sun – September 14, 2012.