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The chief of the Tŝilhqot’in National Government says the body tasked with governing B.C.'s law profession has failed to "appropriately condemn" a lawyer who hired a paroled killer accused of extorting money from residential school survivors.

  VANCOUVER -- A Vancouver lawyer who specialized in compensation cases for residential school survivors has been suspended for one month by the Law Society of British Columbia. In a joint submission with the law society in response to six allegations of professional misconduct against him, Stephen Bronstein "conditionally admitted" to four of them. Bronstein admitted that he failed to adequately vet Ivon Johnny, a residential school survivor and paroled murderer, who Bronstein hired to he...

Posted: May 29, 2021 5:00 AM PT | Last Updated: May 29 In this file photo, visitors to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg visit an exhibit called The Witness Blanket, comprised of more than 800 items collected from the sites and survivors of residential schools. The Law Society of B.C. has disciplined a lawyer who admitted to professional misconduct arising from his representation of survivors of residential schools.(The Canadian Press/John Woods) B.C.s law society has handed a on...