On February 10, 2016, Madam Justice Adair granted an injunction prohibiting Marc Pierre Boyer, of Vancouver, from engaging in the practice of law, from representing himself as a lawyer and barrister and from commencing, prosecuting and defending proceedings in any court. The court found that Boyer had defended a party to a criminal proceeding in Provincial Court and had commenced a proceeding in Supreme Court on behalf of another. While doing so, Boyer had improperly referred to himself as a “barrister.” The court awarded the Law Society $1,500 in costs.
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