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by Philip Slayton


  money laundering, 85–92, 94, 97, 99–105, 224, 322 (See also anti-moneylaundering legislation)

  Monnin, Mark M., 217

  Montague, Chris, 54–55

  Montgomery, Leonard T., 303–4

  Moore, Nancy, 149–50

  morality, 10, 12–13, 313–14

  Morrison, Robert, 221–22, 230, 233, 234

  multiple personality disorder, 139–40

  murder, 6, 152, 156, 171

  National Post, 95, 137, 309

  Natural, The (Klein), 6

  Naylor, Jonathan, 196–97

  Neinstein, Gary, 142–44, 145–47, 323–24, 325, 328

  Nelson Daily News, 262–63

  New Democratic Party (NDP), 200, 201, 205–8

  New York Supreme Court, 297

  New York Times, The, 14, 17, 30, 111, 113, 115

  Newbury, Mary, 126–27, 129, 130

  Niagara Board of Police Commissioners, 98

  Nicholson, Lisa, 138–39, 140

  Normand, Jean, 284, 288, 289

  Notre Dame Magazine, 9

  Nova Bancorp Group, 119

  Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society, 135–36, 138, 139, 140–41, 145, 201, 202, 211

  Nova Scotia Conservative Party, 208, 212

  Nova Scotia Controverted Elections Act, 208

  Nova Scotia Legal Aid Commission, 213

  Nova Scotia legislature, 201, 202–7

  Nova Scotia Liberal Party, 207

  Nova Scotia politics, 212–13

  Nozick, Michael, 216

  Nunn, Merlin, 208

  Nurgitz, Nathan, 76

  obsessive-compulsive disorder, 9

  O’Doherty, J., 172–73

  Onex Corp., 45

  Ontario Bar Association, 151

  Ontario Court of Appeal, 64, 300

  Ontario Family Benefits Act, 141

  Ontario Conservative Party, 43, 97, 98, 102

  Ontario Court of Appeal, 163, 173, 292–93, 304, 305, 315

  Ontario Court of Justice, 293–95

  Ontario Disability Support Program, 174–75

  Ontario Legal Aid Plan, 11, 293–94, 305–6, 311

  Ontario Reports, 65

  Ontario Transport Board, 97

  organized crime, 85, 87, 90, 104, 110

  Orr, Glen, 94, 96

  Osgoode Hall (Toronto), 31, 39, 153, 159, 299

  Ottawa Citizen, 147–48

  over docketing, 11–12, 31, 313 (See also billing practices)

  overwork, 9, 29, 46, 101, 184, 305

  Oziewicz, Estanislao, 160–61

  Panchuk, Don, 100

  Parlee Irving (law firm), 118

  Pavey, Andrew, 138–41

  Pelican Narrows (SK), 178, 180–81, 186, 194–95

  Perfectly Legal (Johnston), 111

  Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, 180, 194 (See also Cree nation)

  Petrone, Alfred, 154, 170, 172, 175, 176

  Pilzmaker, Martin, 3, 42: arrest, 36; as perceived by others, 33, 34–45, 38, 40; charges, 36; disbarment, 39; –Donaldson relationship, 39–40, 49–50; law practice, 33–34; motivation, 51–52; professional misconduct, 35–37; suicide, 5, 32, 39

  Pitbaldo (law firm), 220

  Pocklington, Peter, 119–20

  Pornography: The Other Side (Christensen), 137–38

  Posner, Gerry, 216

  Powell, Betsy, 97

  Prichard, Robert, 45

  Priest, Robert, 303

  Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act, 104–6

  Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, 105, 109–10

  Professional Conduct Handbook for the Law Society of British Columbia, 145

  Project Devise, 69

  Project OJUST, 99

  prostitutes, 136, 137, 152, 155, 156, 157, 161, 162, 164–70, 173, 178

  Protect Yourself from Your Lawyer (Chen), 74

  Province, The, 251, 252–53, 291

  Prudential PLC, 19

  psychopaths, 6, 7–8, 26, 30, 177, 193, 314

  Quebec Bar Association, 276, 278, 290, 283, 284–89

  Quebec Court of Appeal, 284–85, 286, 287, 289

  Quebec Professional Code, 284, 285, 286

  Quebec Superior Court, 279, 288

  Quenneville, Luc, 264, 265

  Ramsey, Peter, 134–35

  Ray, Robert, 7

  RCMP, 69, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80–81, 85, 86, 88, 90–91, 96, 99, 100, 108, 109, 110, 177, 178, 179, 186, 187, 191–92, 195, 218, 244, 262, 264, 291, 301–2, 322, 326

  readmission to bar, criteria, 61–62

  Red Mile Resources Fund Limited Partnership, 133

  Reesor, Steve, 101

  Reminder, The (Flin Flon), 196

  Report of the Auditor General of Canada (2004), 108

  Revenue Canada, 122

  Rinaldo, Michael, 92, 93

  Ripley, Don, 212

  risk-taking behaviour, 6–7, 52

  Roach, Charles, 304

  Rodgers, Patrick, 68

  Rose, Norman, 135–36, 138

  Rosenfeld, Simon, 328: arrest, 92; charges, 92, 93, 94, 322; discharge hearing, 93–94; disciplinary action, 95–96; jail, 322; lifestyle, 93–94; money laundering, 85–92, 95; trial, 94–95

  Ross, Peter, 161, 162, 163–64, 166, 167, 173

  Rovet, Ernest, 48–49

  Royal Bank of Canada, 217

  Ruble, R.J., 112, 115

  Ruby, Clayton, 292

  Saccary, Cecil, 207, 208

  Saint-Onge, Jean, 288

  Sansregret, Amande, 71

  Sargent, Frank, 163

  Saskatchewan NDP, 325

  Scace, Arthur, 55–56, 57, 58

  Scalia, Antonin, 9

  Scheef & Stone (law firm), 113–14

  Schiltz, Patrick, 8–9

  Schmitz, Cristin, 147–48

  Schneider, Stephen, 108–9

  Schwartz, Gerald, 45, 216

  Schwartz, Richard, 232–33

  Scotia McLeod, 97

  Scott, Ian (attorney general), 102, 303

  Scott, Ian (lawyer), 159, 161, 165–69

  Seabright, Paul, 312

  Seductions of Crime (Katz), 6

  selective prosecution argument, 161, 162–63, 164

  Seligman, Martin, 9–10, 314

  Semenak, Susan, 277, 279, 280

  Sentinel Hill Entertainment Corp., 122–24, 126, 127–31, 133

  sexual misconduct, 1, 5–6, 26, 29, 134–51, 178–79, 185–86, 197, 317, 323–25, 328

  Shead, Alice, 219, 220

  Shead, Elly, 219, 221

  Shead, Richard, 5, 8, 219–20: character, 215, 222–23; charges, 218; disbarment, 224; disciplinary hearing, 224, 232; law practice, 216; motivation, 230–31, 232–33; perception of by others, 216, 221, 222, 225, 231, 232, 233; professional misconduct, 216–17; sentencing, 218; trial, 224–29

  Shead Mortgage, 226, 227–28, 230, 231

  Sheriff, Stephen, 38

  Shoniker, Eddie, 85, 97, 98,

  328: arrest, 99; disciplinary action, 98, 103; jail, 322; money laundering, 99–100, motivation, 101–2; political connections, 97, 98, 102; self-perception, 322; testimonials, 101; trial, 100–1

  Shortell, Ann, 120

  Shulman, Justice, 72–73

  Sidley Austin Brown & Wood (law firm), 112–13, 114–15

  Siggins, Maggie, 180–81, 194

  Sigurdson, Jon, 249–50

  Silvertip 1110 Enterprise Ltd., 261

  Singleton, Bessie, 258

  Singleton, Kenneth, 258

  Singleton, Marvin, 328: academic career, 256, 259; arrest, 257, 265; charges, 257; extradition fight, 256, 257, 265–68, 270–71, 274, 326; habeas corpus application, 268, 269, 271; jail, 268–69, 271–74, 326; law practice, 260; opinions about, 257–58, 259, 270; professional misconduct, 260–64, self-perception, 259, 260; trial, 327; as writer, 256, 264, 289

  Singleton, Solveig, 264

  Skimming v. Goldberg, 217

  Skimming, Donna, 217, 218, 226

  Skimming
, Hugh, 217–18, 226

  Skogstad, Don, 261–62

  Slobogian, Brian, 223–24

  Soave, Ben, 100

  solicitor–client privilege, 85, 86, 95, 100, 104, 106–7, 109, 112, 274–75

  Solicitors Act, 315

  Somalia Inquiry (1995), 98

  Spitzer, Eliot, 296–97

  StarPhoenix (Saskatoon), 182–83

  Stockton Financial Services Corp., 227

  Stracher, Cameron, 6

  Strother, Robert Collingwood: background, 118; disciplinary action, 130, 319; disgorgement order, 128–30; education, 118; legal practice, 117, 118; lifestyle, 133; opinions about, 118; professional misconduct, 121–25, 319; trials, 125–32

  Strother v. 3464920 Canada Inc., 320

  suicide, 5, 32, 39, 46, 159–60, 186

  Sullivan Media, 132

  Sun Mortgage, 229, 233

  Supreme Court of British Columbia, 250

  Supreme Court of Canada, 2, 9, 77, 116, 130, 132–33, 276, 285–87, 300, 319–21, 328

  suspensions, 18, 47, 49, 73, 134, 139, 142, 147, 149, 201, 281, 282, 323–24

  Swayze, A.G., 46

  Swedlo, Kris, 66–67, 69, 70–71, 75–76, 77

  Synpro Environmental Services, 93

  Tapper Cuddy (law firm), 233

  tax-assisted production services financing (TAPSF). See film industry tax shelters

  tax shelters, 25–26, 111–33

  terrorism, 97–98, 105, 107, 266

  “Tesco law,” 317

  Then, Justice E., 164, 169–70, 173

  Thunder Bay elite, 6, 161: use of underage prostitutes, 162–63, 164

  Thunder Bay police, 156, 158, 161–62, 166

  Thunder Bay Post, 157

  Topp, Robert, 159

  Toronto-Dominion Bank, 54, 238, 245

  Toronto Integrated Proceeds of Crime Section (RCMP), 100

  Toronto Star, 40–41, 97, 212, 291, 306

  Toronto Sun, 299

  Torstar, 45

  Toughill, Kelly, 212–13

  transparency response, 247

  Trudeau, Pierre, 144

  trust, 1, 3–4, 24, 31, 142, 174 (See also fiduciary duty)

  Twinney, Raymond, 98

  United Nations, 102, 103, 327

  United Steelworkers of America, 99

  University of Alberta, 70, 137

  University of British Columbia, 236, 237

  University of California, Berkeley, 256, 258

  University of Manitoba, 67–68, 70, 74, 182, 216, 259

  University of Oslo, 259

  University of Ottawa, 97, 291

  University of Toronto, 40, 41, 45

  University of Western Ontario, 2, 10

  U.S. Department of Justice, 269

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 92–93

  U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 114–15

  U.S. Social Security Administration, 262

  U.S. Supreme Court, 114

  Valey, Robert Wayne, Jr., 156

  VanCity Savings Credit Union, 245

  Vancouver Sun, 43, 96, 132, 164, 223, 239, 244, 254, 326

  Vietnam War, 258, 259

  Vilcek, Milan, 166

  Vinett, Renée, 99, 100

  Vinson & Elkins (law firm), 17–18, 118

  Visatacion-Lewis, Laura, 297

  Vlassoff, Linda, 166

  Wachovia Bank, 88

  Wall Street Journal, The, 6

  Walsh Micay (law firm), 70, 72

  Ward, Doug, 220–21, 231

  Warren, Sheilagh, 154

  Warren Commission, 258–59

  webimmigration.com, 78–80

  Weisman, George, 61–62, 63

  Whitside, Kim, 232–33

  Whybrow, Peter, 52

  Wilson, Dave, 207, 208

  Winnipeg Free Press, 74–75, 76, 79, 218

  wiretaps, 69, 70, 71, 74, 100

  Wirick, Karen, 238, 249, 252

  Wirick, Martin, 5, 27, 328:bankruptcy, 245, 249–50; biggest fraud, 325–26; cost to law society,250–51; disbarment, 248; investigation, 244–46, 251–52, 326; legal practice,237–38, 252; motivation,236, 238, 240, 252; professional misconduct,239–47; and weakness in conveyancing system, 245–46

  Without Conscience (Wirick),6, 7–8

  Wolson, Richard, 222

  Wong, Manli, 74–75

  Wood, Gavin, 190, 231

  Wood Gundy, 45

  work/life balance, 9, 49

  Yale University, 256, 258

  York University, 108, 299, 308

  Zazelenchuk, Gene, 81, 82

  Zuker, Marvin, 227

 

 

 


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