Law360 Canada ( August 12, 2021, 5:38 AM EDT) -- Appeal by Lavender-Smith from an order that removed her counsel as solicitor of record. In response to a motion filed by the respondent in the parties’ contentious divorce proceedings regarding the appointment of a certain individual as counsellor for their children, the appellant’s lawyer filed his own affidavit that outlined his previous experience with the individual in support of his contention that she was not impartial. At the hearing of the motion, the lawyer arranged for another counsel to argue the motion for the appellant. Before substantive arguments were made, counsel for the respondent requested the removal of the appellant’s lawyer. She had not informed the appellant’s lawyer of her intention to seek his removal....