CANADA
City News
BY JENNIFER GRAHAM, THE CANADIAN PRESS
POSTED OCT 4, 2016
REGINA – The Canadian government says a law firm that represented thousands of residential school survivors should have to pay back legal fees because it inflated its billings.
But the government’s argument that accuses the Merchant Law Group of fraud, deceit and misrepresentation won’t go any further unless Saskatchewan’s highest court agrees to reinstate the case.
Lawyers for Canada’s attorney general told the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal on Tuesday that the government would not have entered into an agreement a decade ago to pay the firm $25 million if it had known there were concerns about how much time the company spent working on residential school claims.
“What we’re saying is we wouldn’t have agreed to that amount if we had known the truth, so we want some damages for that,” lawyer Kelly Keenan told the three Appeal Court judges.
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