IN FACT AND IN LAW
A lawyer’s freedom of expression : there is a limit to what one can say
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February 2010
With regard to the professional obligations of a lawyer, is it possible outside the physical confines of the tribunal to let a judge know exactly what he thinks of him? Should the response be negative, does it not unduly restrain his right to freedom of expression otherwise guaranteed to all by virtue of the charters of rights and freedoms? This is the question to which the Court of Appeal had to respond recently by rendering judgment in the case of Doré v. Bernard, which has incited various reactions in the legal community.
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