Sentences with phrase «shoplifting demand letters»

The analysis in the article is lengthy and sets out a thorough account of the viability of legal claims advanced in shoplifting demand letters.

How do shoplifting demand letters mislead the public?

As I have written in a recent article on the topic of shoplifting demand letters, when lawyers send letters that mislead the public as to their legal obligations, there is a strong case that these lawyers are breaching rules of professional misconduct by, among other things, knowingly assisting their clients in dishonest conduct and violating their obligations to act in good faith and practice law with integrity.

A large number of these letters are still going out: a single Toronto legal aid clinic reported to me that, in the first six months of 2014, they received 50 calls about shoplifting demand letters.

Notwithstanding the fact that many shoplifting demand letters contain what appear to be invalid claims, many members of the public who receive such letters give in to the demands.

The practice at issue is the sending of shoplifting demand letters.

And, of course, Gerry Laarakker was disciplined by the Law Society of British Columbia after making «discourteous and personal remarks» about another lawyer who was sending shoplifting demand letters.

Or is this just about regulating a single activity (shoplifting demand letters).

To my knowledge, no Canadian law society has publicly disciplined lawyers sending shoplifting demand letters or publicly condemned the practice.

If the risk is low of being sued on such shoplifting demand letters in the first place, the foregoing numbers by themselves do not seem to be an incentive to pay on the demand letters.

Not exact matches

The Ontario lawyer in question had sent a letter to one of Laarakker's clients demanding that she pay for «losses» arising from a shoplifting incident involving her daughter.

It was in late - November 2009 when one of Laarakker's clients came to his office to discuss a demand letter that she had received in the mail from an Ontario lawyer concerning an alleged shoplifting incident involving her teenage daughter.

The letter «demand [ed][the mother] pay $ 379 to help defray the cost of shoplifting or face the consequences, threatening a civil lawsuit for as much as $ 900.»