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Ruling strikes down lawyers’ role in anti-money-laundering regime

By Cristin Schmitz (February 26, 2015, 7:00 PM EST) -- The Supreme Court has quashed the latest bid to enlist lawyers in Ottawa’s anti-money-laundering regime, ending a 14-year legal battle waged by law societies in the name of defending solicitor-client privilege and the independence of the bar....

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