Malik's lawyer son faces disciplinary hearing

The lawyer son of a Vancouver businessman acquitted in the Air India bombing will have to face a disciplinary panel for alleged misconduct in his father's legal aid application, the B.C. Law Society has ruled.
Jaspreet Singh Malik had tried to argue that his Charter rights would be violated if he was forced to testify against himself in a law society hearing to answer allegations he misled a B.C. Supreme Court justice and colluded with his father, Ripudaman, and other relatives to diminish the family's assets.
But a law society panel said in a ruling released Thursday that the broader public interest is more important than the rights of the younger Malik.
It also said when Jaspreet took his oath to be a lawyer, he "knowingly, willingly and voluntarily" agreed to be governed by the Legal Profession Act and Law Society Rules, which include testifying at disciplinary hearings.
"We are satisfied that it is not contrary to fundamental justice for the law society to require the respondent to testify on the hearing of the citation," said the panel of Gordon Turriff, David Renwick and Warren Wilson - all Queen's Counsels. "The respondent's application is dismissed."
Malik was cited by the society after Sunni Stromberg-Stein, a court justice, found he had participated in schemes designed to diminish his millionaire father's assets so he would more easily qualify for extraordinary funding under what is called a "Rowbotham" application.
09/11/07 Kim Bolan/Vancouver Sun, Canada

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