Manitoba lawyer investigated for fee irregularities in residential school cases
A Winnipeg lawyer has been suspended by the Law Society of Manitoba until he can face a hearing on allegations that he took more money in fees from residential school survivors than he was entitled...
View ArticleResidential school system was ‘cultural genocide,’ says report
Canada’s policy of forcibly separating aboriginal children from their families and sending them to residential schools amounted to “cultural genocide,” a six-year investigation into the now-defunct...
View ArticleJudge awards rare advance costs to Indian sanatorium school survivor
In what he called a “bizarre and lamentable” motion, an Ontario Superior Court judge has taken the “extra-extra ordinary” measure of awarding $70,000 in advance costs to an aboriginal woman seeking to...
View ArticleJudge reduces Saskatchewan law firm’s fees to $21,000
A judge has awarded a Saskatchewan law firm just $21,000 after it asked for $321,000 from the government for work it did representing residential school survivors in the settlement of a class action...
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