What is the appropriate suspension for a lawyer who has been suspended from practising law for 18 months?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Law Society of Ontario v. Gacanin, 2021 ONLSTH 94 (CanLII):
For the reasons given in Law Society of Ontario v. Hans, 2021 ONLSTH 40, I accepted the submission that an indefinite suspension followed by a one-month definite suspension is appropriate and so ordered.
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