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May 24, 2011. Tony Merchant - Professional Misconduct Allegations! Tony Merchant, who attended Monday’s proceedings with his lawyer Gord Kuski, is accused of conduct unbecoming a lawyer under The Legal Profession Act. Merchant faces eight counts relating to his handling of legal action in two separate family law disputes for “Client X”and “Ms. T,” as they are identified in public documents. Monday’s hearing focused on the allegations regarding Ms. T’s file. It’s alleged Merchant entered into a contingency fee agreement with his client for services related to a matrimonial dispute, without having the form and content of the agreement approved by the court. In addition, it’s alleged Merchant didn’t ensure the agreement stated that any party to it may apply to the court to determine whether or not the agreement is fair and reasonable. Other allegations contend Merchant “wilfully or recklessly” failed to follow the instructions of Ms. T regarding the service of a formal offer to settle upon her husband; failed to exercise due diligence to ensure the instructions of his client of Ms. T were followed regarding the service of a formal offer to settle upon her husband; and placed his firm’s interest above those of his client by failing to serve a formal offer to settle upon Mr. T. Story Comment: This piece of work and his disbarred lawyer son must be getting close to a Guiness World Book of Records for conduct unbecoming a lawyer and do not be surprised if the Saskatchewan Law Society and Attorney General Don Morgan QC give Merchant a free trip to Disneyland for his efforts?
March 29, 2010.
Merchant Law Group - "Best discount ever" Wei
Wu. Documents authored by Wei Wu. Document Changyu Huang June 11, 2009. Matthew Merchant - Final Disbarment - "On June 4, 2009, the hearing committee, on application by the law society, found that Mr. Merchant was in breach of the practice restriction that he was not to sign any trust cheques or in any way handle trust property. Consequently, the hearing committee vacated the stay of the disbarment," the law society stated in its release. The matter dates back to January 2007 when a law society hearing committee disbarred Merchant after sanctioning him on six citations, including applying for ex parte garnishee orders knowing counsel was acting for the other side, deliberately misleading the court in applying for those orders, failing to respond to opposing counsel on a timely basis, threatening his clients with criminal proceedings to induce repayment of settlement money overpaid to them by his firm's mistake, lying to his clients in an attempt to frighten them into paying that money back, and failing to render a trust accounting on a timely basis. Story Comment: It doesn't matter who your daddy is ... Many people are interested in the news that their former legal counsel (Matthew Merchant - Merchant Law Group) who represented them in many "transactions" carried on like it was business as usual, despite having strict conditions placed upon him until a decision was made by the Law Society. It is this kind of reckless disregard for law by a lawyer that his former clients should be concerned with, and those clients are some very large corporations and governments in Canada and abroad. This guy was very busy maintaining trust accounts, real estate, mortgages, Caveats, WRITS (questionable) and he worked with many other lawyers on these deals. What you may have thought was a "done deal" concerning any transaction with Matthew Merchant of Merchant Law Group may not be the case! It is fact that Lisa Mebs (see below - April 26, 2006) was working with Matthew Merchant who inflated the claim on a Caveat and there was NO explanation given by the Alberta Law Society, Mebs or Merchant. Matthew V.R. Merchant v. Law Society of Alberta - SCC - leave to appeal is dismissed with costs! March 14, 2009. Merchant Law Group - "High-profile lawyer Tony Merchant is facing a two-week suspension from practising law following a ruling by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. In a 38-page decision released Thursday, the province’s top court upheld Merchant’s conviction and suspension. The court said the suspension was reasonable, given the concern that the “collective reputation of the profession has been tarnished.” Link Merchant’s lawyer, Gord Kuski, said his client will accept the suspension, but may still, on principle, try to take the case to Canada’s top court Jan 16, 2009. Merchant Law Group - Tony Merchant is a "person of interest" to many these days.
Oct 25, 2007. NO SHOW: The following individuals failed to respond to the NOTICE OF MOTION TO ATTEND - Frank Quennell, Justice Minister and Attorney General of Saskatchewan, Anthony (Tony) Merchant and Matthew Merchant of Merchant Law Group, Terrence Dawe of Dawe Law Office, and Edward Jordan. BMO Nesbitt Burns legal counsel did attend, and brought the requested documentation with them.
Oct 9, 2007 - NOTICE OF MOTION TO ATTEND: Frank Quennell, Anthony Merchant, Matthew Merchant, Wayne Barkauskas, more ... New! Merchant Law Group, Court of Queens Bench and Madame Justice B.L. Rawlins Frank Quennell Page ... (Contempt of Alberta Queens Bench Orders) In December of 1996 and prior to the JDR dated January 10th, 1997 Mr. Merchant, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Edward Jordan, The Honourable Madame Justice B.L. Rawlins and myself signed a binding agreement that allowed this Honourable Judge to make a decision on my estate should Mr. Jordan and myself not be able to agree on a division of assets. What I was left with by Merchant Law Group were two agreements charging land, each in the amount of $78,579.54 (x2) on my real estate. There is another $52,000.00 and another $1,900.00 plus $8.000.00 which Mr. Merchant has taken possession of without authority. Merchant Law Group cannot justify any of these actions
and there were no court costs awarded to Merchant
Law Group by any Order or Judgment in any
court.
April 13, 2007. NOTICE OF MOTION: Anthony Merchant, Matthew Merchant, Frank Quennell ... March 31, 2007. Merchant Law Group: The federal government must pay the Merchant Law Group (MLG) a guaranteed minimum of $25 million for the legal work it did on the multibillion-dollar Indian residential school class action settlement agreement. Link Note: Only in the Saskatchewan courts are decisions rendered and based upon "non-disclosure" while certified court documentation and other documentation illustrated on this website is ignored. The Saskatchewan courts have shut down the "verification process" which is demanded by all Canadians in financial transactions by taxpayers, corporations and government. This display of solicitor/client priviledge proves the courts act upon heresay and rumors, encouraging others to reap the profits of unacountability. The RCMP is not the only credibility problem facing Canadians with respect to their justice system. March 03, 2007. Merchant Law Group: A B.C. court has issued a $300,000-plus judgment against the Merchant Law Group (MLG) for collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in contingency fees the firm wasn’t entitled to receive. The B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered MLG to pay more than $250,000 in damages, plus interest, to Clifford and Linda Chudy, a B.C. couple. In his 97-page judgment, Justice Barry Davies also ordered MLG to pay $50,000 in punitive damages, plus legal costs, after the Chudys successfully sued the law firm for breach of fiduciary duty. Story February 21, 2007
February 12, 2007
Feb 1, 2007 Nov 10, 2006. Nov 5, 2006 "MS. JORDAN IS OWED THOUSANDS IN BACK PAYMENTS, AND DAMAGES FOR HER SUFFERING AT THE HANDS OF THIS CON ARTIST, AND HIS COLLUSION WITH MANY OTHERS IN HER FILE" ... moreSept 20, 2006 Government affidavits allege incidents of shoddy bookkeeping, questionable billing practices, and suggest that Merchant has many hundreds of phantom clients. Frank Iacobucci, a former Supreme Court justice now acting as the federal overseer of the residential school agreement, has declared that he has "very serious concerns about the information put forward by the Merchant Law Group ..." Story Feb 8, 2006 Well-known Regina lawyer Tony Merchant has been found guilty of two counts of conduct unbecoming a lawyer. The Saskatchewan Law Society has ruled that Merchant withdrew trust funds from another person without that person's consent. Merchant was also cited after writing letters to people who were forced to leave their homes in Estevan following a train derailment two years ago. Story
April 26, 2006 "What was unknown to both Ms. Lisa Mebs and Merchant
Law Group was that the
Law Society of Alberta and myself had been in ongoing
communications, and they had a vastly different opinion concerning
the stated claim of
Merchant Law Group." Link June 24, 2006 "A hearing committee found Merchant guilty earlier this year on two charges of conduct unbecoming a lawyer. They are his fifth and sixth such convictions by the professional organization, said lawyer Gary Young, who represented the law society at the sentencing in Waskesiu on Friday " . The offence is "particularly troublesome," because it "goes
to the heart of the profession's trust obligations," Young said, noting
trustees "have no choice" when it comes to following the terms
of trust agreements Story |
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