Opinion: No genuine rule of law can exist without independent lawyers, who are no less essential than independent courts
It is an election year and the politics are fierce. No, I am not referring to the upcoming federal campaign but to the election soon to take place at the Law Society of Ontario. Lawyers and paralegals will vote in late April on their choices for “Bencher,” the quaint name for the people who sit on the regulator’s governing body. Sounds boring, I know. Not even the lawyers and paralegals usually pay attention. This time, however, is different.
In recent years, a new order has arisen at the Law Society. In 2012, the regulator created a working group to investigate systemic racism in Ontario’s legal profession. Four years later the working group announced that it had found exactly that. (The data in its own report indicates no such thing.)
Bruce Pardy – National Post – April 2, 2019.
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