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Top court orders new law licence assessment for man who sexually abused children
Ontario's top court found the tribunal's good-character ruling unreasonable and ordered a new review focusing on public trust and the risk of unsupervised contact with minors.
- The Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered a new assessment after finding the Law Society Tribunal's decision unreasonable regarding AA's 'good character' to practise law.
- The abuse first came to light after his 2012 application when AA misrepresented the incidents to child protection authorities and was un-cooperative, withholding medical records.
- The Law Society Tribunal found AA to be of good character, citing remorse and no reoffending after 2017, and imposed a supervision condition upheld by the tribunal's appeal division.
- A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeal for Ontario said the Law Society Tribunal did not consider if licensing AA would be consistent with public trust, and the supervision condition undermines the good-character finding.
- With leave granted last year, the Appeal Court now orders a new assessment after AA re-applied in 2019 and the Law Society referred the matter to the tribunal.
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Top court orders new law licence assessment for man who sexually abused children
TORONTO - Ontario's top court has ordered a new assessment for a man who sexually abused children to determine whether he has the "good character" needed to become a lawyer.
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TORONTO — Ontario’s top court has ordered a new assessment for a man who sexually abused children to determine whether he has the “good character” needed to become a lawyer. The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled that a previous decision by the Law Society Tribunal that found the man — identified only as AA — to be in good character was “unreasonable” and failed to consider key aspects of the assessment. For example, the three-judge panel say…
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