(10) The Corporation may enter into agreements with the Canadian Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Credit Union Deposit Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for the repayment or indemnification by those companies of funds paid under subsection (8). 7. If the money referred to in paragraph 6 is not paid within 5 years of its receipt by the company in accordance with paragraph 1, the company shall pay the money to the foundation for its needs, excluding interest withheld in accordance with paragraph 4, but paragraphs 5 and 6 shall continue to apply as if the money had not been paid to the foundation. (c) any voting share is held legally and economically by a lawyer or a practising corporation, (2) notwithstanding the Financial Institutions Act and the Insurance Act with respect to the establishment, administration, maintenance and operation of a corporate compensation program, (6) a lawyer who is suspended or ceases to be a member in good standing of the Company for any other reason; must immediately surrender his general manager to his certificate of practice as general manager and any proof of professional liability indemnity issued by the company. (d) each non-voting share is legally and economically owned by subsection 16(1) In this section, the term “management body” means the governing body of the law society in another province or territory of Canada. (12) Subject to subsections (7), (8) and (11), all interest earned on money paid into a business trust account shall be held in trust by the Corporation for the benefit of the Foundation and the Corporation shall not be accountable to a client of a lawyer or law firm for those interests. (8) The Corporation may pay money from an escrow account of the Corporation to a person who has suffered a loss directly as a result of the Inability or Refusal of the Savings Institution to redeem the trust cheque of a lawyer or law firm issued in a pooled trust fund account, up to a maximum amount determined by the banks in a given year. (a) the pooled trust funds are transferred in trust to the Corporation to be held in the account referred to in subsection (5) and invested in the manner permitted by subsection 6 and section 26.1 If an investigation is conducted in accordance with the rules set out in subsection 26(2) of this Act that relate to a lawyer or former lawyer who is also a “part-time judge”; since this term is defined in § 1 of the Landesgerichtsgesetz, the Company must send to the President of the Supreme Court appointed in accordance with § 10 of the Landesgerichtsgesetz as soon as possible a written notification containing the following information: (3) The rules apply to the Company, lawyers, law firms, advisers, students of the article, candidates and persons within the meaning of Article 16, paragraph 2(a) or number 17(1)(a). 2.

A partnership composed of partnerships or of one or more lawyers and one or more partnerships shall be entitled to carry on the activity of providing legal services to the public by one or more persons referred to in paragraph 1. (5) Except with the written consent of the Chief Executive Officer, the Corporation, an employee or a representative or former employee or representative of the Corporation or a member or former member of a committee, body or audit committee established under this Act (d), the Corporation or any subsidiary is not required to act as an insurance clerk or insurance agent in accordance with Part 6, Division 2 of the Financial Institutions Act. and 11 (1) The Benchers may make rules for the management of the Corporation, lawyers, law firms, students and candidates, and for the implementation of this Act. (1.3) A lawyer who or a law firm that provides the Corporation with confidential or solicitor-client privilege information, records or records in accordance with this Act and the Rules has definitively breached any obligation or obligation that would otherwise have been incumbent on the Corporation or the Client not to disclose the information, folders or folders. (a) release custody, unless the company explains why the guardianship should be maintained; The Law Society has the authority to review the conduct and competence of lawyers working in British Columbia, including lawyers in private practice, mutual legal assistance lawyers, government lawyers and Crown prosecutors. The Law Society may also review the conduct of a lawyer outside of legal practice if the alleged conduct violates the British Columbia Code. Each formal complaint about behaviour and jurisdiction is investigated and addressed, and approximately 1,100 complaints are dealt with each year. (2) The Corporation may request or retain legal or other assistance to conduct an investigation in accordance with Parts 2, 3 or 4 or in the matter of a quotation and may be represented by counsel at each hearing. The Law Society of British Columbia regulates the legal profession in British Columbia and protects the public interest in the administration of justice by establishing and enforcing standards for the professional conduct of lawyers. The Law Society ensures that the public is well served by honourable and competent lawyers by managing admissions and referrals for new lawyers, offering multiple training programs and overseeing the annual continuing development program required for lawyers, conducting reviews of a lawyer`s practice and overseeing recourse programs, regulating and auditing lawyers` accounting procedures, advising lawyers on ethics and legal matters, keeping a lawyer`s practice when a lawyer is unable to continue to practise and has failed to make arrangements for clients, investigating and disciplining lawyers who have violated the rules of the Law Society and taking action against those who illegally provide legal services or falsely present themselves as Lawyers. (2) For a quorum to be attained at a meeting of councillors, at least 7 councillors must be present and a majority of the persons present must be members of the society.

The main mandate of the company under the Law on the Profession of Lawyer[2] is to safeguard and protect the public interest in the administration of justice by safeguarding and protecting the rights and freedoms of all persons, ensuring the independence, integrity, honour and competence of lawyers, and establishing standards and programs for training, the professional liability and jurisdiction of british Columbia lawyers. The Company`s mission is also to regulate legal practice and to assist and abide lawyers, article students and lawyers from other jurisdictions who may practise as lawyers in British Columbia in the performance of their duties in legal practice. (2) With the payment of money to the company in accordance with paragraph 1, the obligation of the lawyer or law firm to pay that money to the person in whose name it was held or to the legal representative of that person ceases. (2) Counsel may permit qualified lawyers from other Canadian jurisdictions to practise law in British Columbia and promote cooperation with the governing bodies of the Law Society in other Canadian jurisdictions by doing one or more of the following: 81 (1) A corporation has the right to resume the business of providing legal services to the public by one or more persons, of which 91 (1) each. and maintain insurance that protects the Company, the Company`s bankers, officers and employees, as well as former bankers, officers and employees from any liability arising out of the Company`s operations or activities, and provides for indemnification of all claims arising out of acts committed or not committed by such bona fide persons, by acting on behalf of the Company or by pretending to act. (3) The amount of costs payable by a defendant or plaintiff under the regulations may be recovered as a claim against the corporation, and if collected, the amount is the property of the corporation. 18 Counsel may make rules respecting the association of members of the Society or law firms in British Columbia with lawyers or law firms in other jurisdictions. (b) the Company receives a secured or unsecured line of credit from the Savings Account to ensure that there is always enough money deposited to ensure that lawyers` and law firms` trust cheques are redeemed in their pooled trust fund accounts. The Law Society Scholarship encourages and financially supports a law graduate to pursue a full-time graduate law program that benefits the student, the province and advocacy in British Columbia. (2) The Corporation or the Foundation shall indemnify a person referred to in subsection 1 for any costs or expenses incurred by the person in connection with legal proceedings commenced for something done or not done in good faith, while acting or purporting to act on behalf of the Corporation or foundation in accordance with this Act. As the regulator of lawyers, the Law Society cannot make recommendations. If you are looking for a lawyer for legal advice, visit Find a Lawyer.

(2) If the legal assistance provided by the advisers is provided by an employee of the company, the amount of the costs that may be awarded under the provisions relating to such mutual legal assistance may be the same as if the company had engaged an external lawyer. 86 (1) An action for damages shall not be brought against a person for something done or not done in good faith while acting or purporting to act on behalf of the corporation or foundation under this Act.