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Non-Client Duties

Clients have done such a good job in taking pot shots at lawyers that non-clients have also joined the fun. We first discussed this issue in our February 1998 newsletter. The case was Wilhelm v. Hickson, a decision of the Saskatchewan Queen’s Bench. That decision has now been upheld by the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal and has been imported, at least obliquely, to Ontario in De Los Reyes v. Timol, a 2000 unreported decision in the Superior Court of Justice, rendered by Justice Dunn.

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