Wellness: How other disciplinary bodies handle addiction and mental health issues | Darryl Singer

By Darryl Singer ( December 22, 2017, 10:44 AM EST) -- Point One: There is a recent decision from the Law Society Tribunal (Ontario) involving a lawyer who had “failed to communicate” and “failed to co-operate” with the law society. The background of the lawyer’s malfeasance (which did not involve any breach of trust allegations) was a direct result of a serious mental illness. Given the length of time and number of opportunities he had been given to communicate and co-operate he essentially fell into the category of ungovernable. The ordinary penalty in this case would have been revocation of his licence....