Hong Guo receives second disbarment from practicing law, declared ungovernable

Hong Guo has been disbarred from practising law in BC for a second time after being found ungovernable by a Law Society Tribunal hearing panel.

The hearing panel found Guo committed numerous instances of professional misconduct, including misappropriation and other mishandling of trust funds, breaches of trust accounting rules, conflicts of interest, misrepresentations and false representations to clients and the Law Society.

Guo has a lengthy and serious discipline history, which consists of misappropriation,  mishandling trust funds, repeated breaches of undertakings, conflicts of interest, a consistent and repetitive failure to respond to the Law Society’s inquiries and a pattern of misleading behaviour directed at both the Law Society and clients.

In addition to disbarment, Guo was ordered to pay $45,497 in costs. Guo was disbarred for the first time in November 2023.

The full decision is available on the Tribunal’s website.

Media requests can be directed to Christine Tam, Director of Communications and Engagement at ctam@lsbc.org.