Alberta Justice staff reopened and revised a public contract after an industry association met with then justice minister Jonathan Denis.
A Law Society of Alberta disciplinary panel has fined and reprimanded a former Alberta justice minister for two instances of professional misconduct and has reserved its decision on whether Jonathan Denis will have to pay costs.A law society ruling has reprimanded and fined former Alberta justice minister Jonathan Denis for two instances of professional misconduct and will decide if he will face additional costs.
The panel accepted the joint submission. It reprimanded Denis for undermining people who believed they were his clients and, in a separate instance, improperly using his position to benefit his client.Hunka argued that Denis should pay $26,000 in costs, on top of the fine. That opinion is where the two lawyers differed.
Denis served under a Progressive Conservative government as the justice minister for three years, ending in 2015, when he lost his seat in the provincial election. In 2016, Denis founded Guardian Law Group. C.M. contacted the boyfriend's wife to confess their affair. At the time, C.M. was on leave from her job as a peace officer with Alberta Health Services.Law society hears allegations of conflict, threats on the part of former Alberta justice minister
The Law Society of Alberta found Denis's two emails to the woman "contain clear evidence that Mr. Denis twice made a threat."The law society also found that a year earlier, in August 2020, Denis was acting in a conflict of interest.
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