The Law Society of BC has suspended a Surrey lawyer for five months, for committing professional misconduct by representing a man, and later his wife, in the same family law litigation.
The Law Society’s Tribunal Hearing panel has also ordered lawyer Pir Indar Paul Singh Sahota to pay the society almost $16,000 in costs and disbursements, saying his conflict of interest was obvious and “clearly cost the wife and husband wasted money, time, and emotional energy. “
“The Respondent’s actions in this case, taken individually and holistically, are frankly startling, especially for someone with his length of call,” the panel…
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The Mumbai police have registered a case against lawyer Shekhar Jagtap for allegedly forging documents to appear as a public prosecutor before the Bombay High Court and other courts in the city in multiple cases against builder Shyamsunder Agrawal.
The Allegations
Builder Sanjay Punamiya lodged a complaint, leading to the case being registered under sections 420 (cheating) and 465 (forgery) of the IPC against Jagtap, Shyamsunder Agrawal, Sharad Agrawal, Kishore Bhalerao (deputy secretary of the state home department), and others . The complaint alleges that Jagtap posed as a special public prosecutor in several court hearings, obstructing investigations to aid…
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Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow is seeking a special prosecutor to handle a case where former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson’s past attorney is accused of violating a 2022 gag order.
On Monday, Glasgow filed a motion for a special prosecutor in the indirect contempt of court case filed last Friday against Joel Brodsky, a former attorney for Peterson. The motion is scheduled for a hearing on Wednesday before Will County Chief Judge Dan Kennedy.
Glasgow’s motion said he wants to recover his office from the case because Brodsky was Peterson’s defense attorney, who is “currently in a post-conviction…
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If Tim Burke, the nationally recognized Tampa-based media consultant, happened to find the website where he obtained unaired Fox News footage and then published the videos, legal experts say his activity probably was not a crime.
But if Burke obtained the videos through underhanded means — like working in cooperation with another person to hack into the website, as a federal indictment alleges — then he could be in trouble.
That’s the general consensus among First Amendment attorneys who spoke with the Tampa Bay Times after Burke was indicted last week. The case against Burke, they say, hinges on precisely…
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ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys for Donald Trump and other defendants in the Georgia election interference case hoped that lawyer Terrence Bradley would provide key testimony in support of their effort to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis — and they had good reason for their optimism.
Over several months, Bradley had been in touch with Ashleigh Merchant, a lawyer for Trump co-defendant Michael Roman, according to hundreds of text messages produced by Merchant as evidence and obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Through the texts, Bradley fed Merchant information and made suggestions to help her prove that Willis…
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Published Feb 27, 2024 • Last updated 2 days ago • 4 minute read
A lawyer who said it was ‘mortifying’ to learn she had submitted fake AI-generated case law in error to back her client’s petition in a family law hearing in B.C. Supreme Court is being investigated by the province’s regulatory body for lawyers. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG
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A lawyer who said it was “mortifying” to learn she had submitted AI-generated fake case law…
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The cases would have provided compelling precedent for a divorced dad to take his children to China — had they been real.
But instead of savouring courtroom victory, the Vancouver lawyer for a millionaire embroiled in an acrimonious split has been told to personally compensate her client’s ex-wife’s lawyers for the time it took them to learn the cases she hoped to cite were conjured up by ChatGPT.
In a decision released Monday, a B.C. Supreme Court judge reprimanded lawyer Chong Ke for including two AI “hallucinations” in an application filed last December.
The cases never made it into Ke’s…
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A BC attorney has been ordered to review all of her files after she made the “serious mistake” of citing “fictitious” cases created by ChatGPT to the court, according to a recent judgment.
“Citing fake cases in court filings and other materials handed up to the court is an abuse of process and is tantamount to making a false statement to the court. Unchecked, it can lead to a miscarriage of justice,” Justice David Masuhara wrote in his Feb. 20 rules.
The issue arose during a “high conflict” dispute in family court in which Chong Ke was representing a father…
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