To the extent that shoplifting
civil recovery letters advance spurious claims, the fact that a lawyer is used to send these letters can be seen as an attempt to mislead members of the public.
Although I am not aware of any similar types of practice by banks in Canada, the types of concerns that Moorhead raises in his blog have been raised with respect to the involvement of Canadian lawyers in sending
civil recovery letters to shoplifters on behalf of retailers.
In speaking about a shoplifting
civil recovery letter that had been sent by a lawyer acting for a retailer to the parent of a teenager, Justice Jewers stated in a 1996 Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench decision (B. (D.C.) v. Arkin (1996), 138 D.L.R. (4th) 309):
Not exact matches
This
letter is call «
civil recovery demand
letters».