Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 24, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free press Friday april 24, 1981 Tiv 7--j i 3 protest against lawyers hits responsive nor by Steve Pona a Winnipeg Man who has been advertising against allegedly unfair Legal practices by some Manitoba lawyers says he has received More than 200 Falls and letters Many in support from people across the prov Ince. John Koshurba a Railroad Mechanic who Heads the newly formed Citi Zens Legal advisory committee said people have been complaining about Legal fees and their lawyers conduct in everything from House deals to divorce actions and criminal cases. A lot people Are afraid of our Legal system and Don t understand said Koshurba 48. And there is no one to help. They find themselves Between the Devil and the deep Blue Koshurba whose last advertisement appeared in the free press this month said he is petitioning the legislature for a Bill giving his three member commit tee the Power to set standards for lawyers and to have the courts Deal with negligence misrepresentation and fraud a Job being handled by the Manitoba Law society. Koshurba has touched a responsive chord. The letters he has received reveal a sense of frustration and resentment with the Legal system. According to lawyers and other experts however complaints seem to go hand in hand with Legal practice. While some complaints Are justified they say others Are More often the result of poor communication or hard feelings. Anti lawyer ism is almost As deeply entrenched As anti semitism and almost As said Dale Gibson a Law professor at the University of Manitoba. Lawyers often have to Deal in secrecy. Trust is placed in their hands so they Are in a very sensitive kind of position. When occasionally somebody Breaks it there is intense disappoint ment. The lawyer s Talent is to use every sort of verbal trick and so on on behalf of their he added. Although it s on behalf of their diem it s always against somebody else so a lot of resentment hangs on Anita Neville a Law society Bencher said if you Are my lawyer and you lose a Case for me i am going to be mad at you particularly if you Send me a big lawyer Hymie Weinstein who lec Tures bar admission students said in criminal cases the key is the Way you Deal with your clients Early on by not trying to predict the outcome of cases with certainty and letting them know what you plan to do and what his fee is going to be approximate but occasionally you Are going to get a client that no matter what you do for him he is still going to complain. That s a fact of last year the Law governs Manitoba s More than lawyers received 300 complaints. Secretary Graeme Garson said penalties were assessed in 16 cases. He noted that during the same period there were a million or More Legal transactions in the province. The society has just established a standards committee the first of its kind in Canada. It will have the Power to investigate incompetence and recommend disciplinary action. Garson said there have been com plaints about incompetence in the past but until the new committee was officially created the society was Power less to Deal with them. Now perhaps we could go to the Root causes of the problems. The society is considering a change in rules to enable two non lawyers to sit on the committee. Rules passed last Winter require All members to have practising certificates. There is a very Strong feeling that there must and should be Lay benches on Garson said. He said the majority of committee members would still be lawyers to assure the lawyer who is being judged on competence matters that he is not being judged by a majority of Lay benches who really Don t have the background or four of the society s 36 benches Are Lay members appointed from among the general Public. Two of them Neville and Ian Suth Erland were appointed to the Stan Dards committee last fall but will not officially become members until the Rule is changed. Garson said Lay representation gives the Public a window into the activities of the society and in turn provides it with an Arm s length non lawyer input into the problem at in other words if you Are a lawyer for 20 years your View of the matter May be somewhat More narrow in so far As the Legal consuming Public is concerned. It gives us a better bal Ance and indicates what it s like to be on the receiving end of inadequate Legal Garson said. Neville a Mother of three and a Volunteer coordinator with Winnipeg school division said to prepare her self for the standards committee she has done a Little bit of Reading on professional ethics and she added that having been a Lay member for years it s mostly what you Are and what you bring to it your own personal but when it comes to the judg ment of the Legal aspects you have to defer to the Legal knowledge of the others then based on the discussion you use your own Intelli gence and try to come to a she said. Gibson said ethical cases almost Al ways involve a matter of degree. The lawyer is often pulled one Way and the other by competing considerations. He s got a duty to his client he s got a duty to the court he s got a duty to the Public generally. I Don t see Why a Lay person can t have a significant role to play in deciding whether a lawyer has pro Perly balanced those competing in Lay representatives Are appointed by a four member committee which includes the . 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