Good character requirement

[Anonymous]

Due to a dismissed charge, I am under investigation by the law society. Now I have applied for admission to another jurisdiction and disclosed my ongoing investigation. Would I get rejected because of it?

[BHC1]

People convicted of terrorism, sexually assaulting their 14 year old former student, and a child predator who is still too dangerous to be alone with children all passed this requirement. Your chances are good. 

[Turtles]

I know an articling student who had been charged, used his status as an articling student and various frivolous complaints to try to intimidate the police and prosecutor, began actively breaching a court order, and continued to engage in a public course of harassment against the original criminal complainant while also making unhinged threats to bomb a court house that was being actively investigated by the police. After the original charge was diverted out of the criminal justice system, he declared it to the LSO and received a letter within about 6 weeks clearing him of any need for a law society investigation. I am also aware he has now committed perjury, which is an impressive accomplishment for someone not even a lawyer yet. He has now doubled down in his harassment campaign but failed the bar and ceased to be an articling student, so I guess those are more reliable filters to protect the public.

Suffice it to say, I'm sure you'll be fine. 

[CleanHands]

Yeah, this professional is full of absolute pieces of shit.

[99problems]

20 hours ago, Turtles said:

I know an articling student who had been charged, used his status as an articling student and various frivolous complaints to try to intimidate the police and prosecutor, began actively breaching a court order, and continued to engage in a public course of harassment against the original criminal complainant while also making unhinged threats to bomb a court house that was being actively investigated by the police. After the original charge was diverted out of the criminal justice system, he declared it to the LSO and received a letter within about 6 weeks clearing him of any need for a law society investigation. I am also aware he has now committed perjury, which is an impressive accomplishment for someone not even a lawyer yet. He has now doubled down in his harassment campaign but failed the bar and ceased to be an articling student, so I guess those are more reliable filters to protect the public.

Suffice it to say, I'm sure you'll be fine. 

How does he intimidate prosecutors as an articling student? This wasn’t an option when I was articling

[LMP]

39 minutes ago, 99problems said:

How does he intimidate prosecutors as an articling student? This wasn’t an option when I was articling

A few minutes of light howling will get you job done. 

[Turtles]

6 hours ago, 99problems said:

How does he intimidate prosecutors as an articling student? This wasn’t an option when I was articling

Since it's Christmas, I'm happy to share this step by step guide on how to prove your good character and disprove any allegations of harassing conduct:

 

Step 1 - Hammer the Crown with emails asking them to drop the charge against you, ignoring their responses and just asking again and again on a hourly-to-daily basis. 

 

Step 2 - Claim the Crown is only pursuing the charge out of unknown personal motivations and start quoting LSO Rules at them to insinuate you will file a LSO complaint if they don't do what you want. 

 

Step 3 - When the Crown tells you to cease direct communications and leave it to your counsel to deal with them, ignore their request by continuing to email them inappropriate comments while also couriering physical copies of your emails to their office to ensure they can't filter out your messages. 

 

Step 4 - If the above doesn't work, start publicly defaming the Crown counsel using their name and image by asserting they are part of a covert white supremacist conspiracy. 

 

Step 5 - Smile warmly when you recieve your LSO good character clearance letter.

[BHC1]

I’ve dealt with my share of harassment and had a professional misconduct complaint opened into me a few years ago. These things aren’t fun to deal with even when they are frivolous. Looks like the ‘difficultly’ of the bar exams appear to be doing the heavy lifting on protecting from our profession, over our regulators. 
 

2 hours ago, Turtles said:

Since it's Christmas, I'm happy to share this step by step guide on how to prove your good character and disprove any allegations of harassing conduct:

 

Step 1 - Hammer the Crown with emails asking them to drop the charge against you, ignoring their responses and just asking again and again on a hourly-to-daily basis. 

 

Step 2 - Claim the Crown is only pursuing the charge out of unknown personal motivations and start quoting LSO Rules at them to insinuate you will file a LSO complaint if they don't do what you want. 

 

Step 3 - When the Crown tells you to cease direct communications and leave it to your counsel to deal with them, ignore their request by continuing to email them inappropriate comments while also couriering physical copies of your emails to their office to ensure they can't filter out your messages. 

 

Step 4 - If the above doesn't work, start publicly defaming the Crown counsel using their name and image by asserting they are part of a covert white supremacist conspiracy. 

 

Step 5 - Smile warmly when you recieve your LSO good character clearance letter.

 

Edited December 25, 2024 by BHC1

[SNAILS]

On 12/23/2024 at 11:55 PM, Guest Anonymous said:

Due to a dismissed charge, I am under investigation by the law society. Now I have applied for admission to another jurisdiction and disclosed my ongoing investigation. Would I get rejected because of it?

I, of course, echo the above posters in saying that it takes very serious misconduct to be denied a finding of good character.

I understand that you don't want to give details. However, it makes a difference:

1. What these charges were that were dropped
2. How strong the evidence was.

If there is significant evidence you committed a financial crime, you may be in bigger trouble. This would include stealing money from a client's trust fund, blatant fraudulent billing against a client, tax fraud, etc. I think other crimes of dishonesty like perjury, forging documents, and so on are also treated very seriously.

If the charges were dropped, I think it's unlikely that there is nonetheless significant evidence.

If the charges are something that has little or nothing to do with the practice of law 9and they were dropped) you are probably fine. For example, an assault, drunk driving, possession of drugs, etc.