Law360 Canada ( December 27, 2017, 8:08 AM EST) -- Appeal by McLean, a lawyer, from a Law Society of British Columbia Review Board decision that overturned a Hearing Panel decision and substituted a professional misconduct finding. The professional misconduct finding concerned McLean’s failure to promptly meet financial obligations and promptly reply to client communications about those obligations in relation to his law practice. On appeal, McLean argued that the Board erred in not ordering the Law Society to disclose all of the complaints it had ever received relating to the late payment of debts, and particulars of those complaints. At issue on appeal was the appropriate standard of review the Board was to apply to the Hearing Panel decision, the proper application of that standard of review, and Law Society disclosure obligations. McLean argued the standard of review had recently changed, such that questions of mixed fact and law had to be reviewed on a deferential standard of reasonableness....