CANADA
CBC News
A lawyer from Kenora, Ont., under investigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada, says all of his residential school clients received their full entitlement.
Doug Keshen is facing allegations of professional misconduct and is to appear before the Law Society tribunal on June 30.
He is accused of advancing money to clients against anticipated settlement funds and transferring money from residential school clients’ settlement funds to himself.
“I’m not in a situation like the ones in other parts of Canada where lawyers took people’s money and the clients didn’t receive their benefit,” Keshen said. “My situation is that I advanced some dollars interest-free. I never personally benefited.”
Keshen is also accused of facilitating high interest loans from Settlement Lenders of Canada. The loans were secured against anticipated settlement funds, according to the Law Society’s Notice of Application.
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