CANADA
Winnipeg Free Press
By: Alexandra Paul
Posted: 06/9/2014
The day Winnipeg lawyer Ken Carroll talked a sick, elderly woman into a 10-hour bus trip from Thunder Bay and had staff take $8,100 off her cheque as soon as she walked out of a Winnipeg bank, he was in trouble.
And any lawyer who did anything like it is also in trouble now, after a court ruling in Manitoba last week put a stop to the dubious practice.
Manitoba’s Court of Queen’s Bench cited Winnipeg lawyer Ken Carroll and the First Nation Residential Schools Solution Inc. as a test case to make a larger point.
Mr. Justice Percy Schulman said his ruling applies to any lawyer and agency that filled in forms for survivors to get compensation and then charged their fees against their compensation cheques.
In fact, Schulman made no bones about his feelings on the matter in a ruling that covered 55 pages and took up for some 1,000 survivors of residential schools.
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