This week, after a 15-day election period, a slate of those brave enough to publicly oppose the “statement of principles” (SOP) the Law Society of Ontario imposed upon lawyers in December of 2016 was resoundingly elected as benchers (the Law Society’s board of directors). The election was divided, as it always is, into candidates from Toronto and candidates from outside the city. The SOP is in my eyes a form of compelled expressionIn the outside Toronto category, seven of the top vote-getters were members of the StopSOP slate. The two candidates who got the most votes were, in Toronto, Murray Klippenstein, and outside it, Ryan Alford, a law professor at Lakehead University. (The press release said the CLA had endorsed 11 lawyers for election; alas, only 10 were named in the release.)

Source: National Post May 02, 2019 22:52 UTC