ree 1é, The Heratd, Tuesday, January 27, 1981

Disbarred lawyers pose |

question on profession

| TORONTO (CP) — In the
‘last year, 12 Ontario
lawyers have CL
i disbarred, five susperkled
‘and nine reprimanded —
Neading some to question
iwhat is happening to the
‘honorable profession.

The Law Society of
lupper Canada, which
_Tegulates and disciplines
‘the province’s 14,118
‘lawyers, is facing unprece-
-dented demands on its
-eompensation fund, which
attempts to repay victims
jof fraudulent lawyers.

‘ The amount paid by the
fund, to which all lawyers
‘gontribute $50 a year, rose
;lo $738,000 last year from
‘$410,000 in 1979.

' “As a lawyer and as &
‘citizen, I'm very concerned
with the numbers of
ilawyers being charged
‘with criminal offences,"
jsaid H’A. Leal, Ontario
‘deputy attorney-general.

In Hamilton, four
lawyers were stripped of

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their professional] standing
last year and sent to prison

for stealing more than $5 °

million from clients.

‘The incidents led County

Court Judge William
Perras to say in December
that the numbers of
lawyers running afoul of
the Iaw in the Hi -nilton
area had reached
“epidemic proportions.”

But John Bowlby of
Hamilton, treasurer of the
law society, says ‘‘the
number of dishonest
lawyers is a ‘fraction of one
per cent and it exists in
every profession."’

“It’'a an unfortunate
happenstance that

Hamilton in one year has: -

found its overshare of that
small percentage. I know
of no test man has devised
to screen that fraction that
causes so Tauch trouble to
the honest lawyers.”
Some lawyers say fewer
of their colleagues would
bein trouble if they stuck to

the job they: were trained
for and stayed out of in-
vestment counselling.

The classic situation is
the lawyer who works on an
estate case, then offers to
invest the money for his
client, said Hamilton
lawyer Dermot Nolan.

"That's where I think he
makes his mistake,
although I’m in a
minority,’”’ said Nolan,

Lawyers may offer in-
vestment advice, provided‘ —

they are not investing
clients’ money in their own
companies. There are
strict law society rules
goverfing lawyers
borrowing money from
their clients.

The glut of lawyers in
Ontario is also a cause of
the problems, other
lawyers say. The profes-
sion’s size has doubled in
the last 10 years and each
year 1,100 lawyers are
called to the bar.

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HOLLYWOOD (AP) —
Johnny Cash makes 8 rare
venture into dramatic
television next month when
he portrays a. Kentucky-
born illiterate in the CBS

-mavie, The Pride of Jesse

Hallam.
The show will not appear

“until March 3, but Cash was
. here to talk about it

recently — the only time he
could spare from his tight
schedule of concerts.

“] haveno illusions about

being a movie star quote-
unquote,”’ he said. ‘My life

is wrapped around the -

music business, and that’s

where I belong. But once in-

a while I enjoy a refreshing
break with an acting role,
especially when I find sub-

“fect matter that” is: ex.

citing.”

The Pride of Jesse
Hallam is just that, he
declared. It’s the fictional
story of a coal miner who

_ goes north to cincinnati in

hopes of a new life for
himself and his two young.
chidren. Trouble is, Jesse
can't read, :
“He is the kind of person
I knew so well on the far-

- m," said Cash.
“When I was 39 and 14, [
‘plowed; ” “pleked'— ant

chopped cotton in Taxas
and Arkansas, working
alongside blacks
Mexican migrant laborers.
Td go to the big farms and

make $3 for picking 100

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pounds of cotton, dragging
the sack to the scales.

“J remember the

‘gmalltime chiselling by.

‘farm managers who would
‘cheat grown men who
weren't able to read the
Beales. Instead of. getting

A dramatic venture for Cash

had the chance to learn to
read, and he hides the fact
from his two children.
“He's not an unin-
telligent man. When he
goes to a Cincinnati
museum with his son’s

teacher, who's played by

‘= Credit for 60-potnds they'd “~~ Brenda -~-Vatcaro; he

be put down for 48, and the

day’s tally would end up -

three-quarters af what they
should have been paid. A
“lot of people were em-
barrassed at the scales,
swindled out of what they
had earned because of their
Witeracy.""

Cash had read news
magazine stories about the
prevalence of “functional
illiteracy" — the failure to
read or write well enough
to function productively in

. today's society. He . was
producer -

ready when
Frank Konigsberg came up
with The Pride of Jesse.
Hallam.

‘Jesse is a ‘dog-hole
miner' — a man who works
a mine by himself and
hauls his diggings to the
bopper a bucket at a time,”
said Cash, “He just never

recognizes a Frederick
Remington painting.
That's because a Reming-
ton print had hung over his
mother's bed, and he could

. gell by the colors and the

figures."

Hollywood seems foreign
turf to Cash, although he
lived in suburban Encino
seven years earlier in his
career. He has come here
for film roles, including
opposite Kirk Douglas in
the feature, A Gunfight,
and guest appearances for
Little House on the Prairie
and Columbo, as well as &
previous TV movie,
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie.

“But I don’t make any
claims of being an actor,”
he said. “The acting craft
needs to be learned and
practized. 1 was just belng
myself,

permits,” Kaplan said.

inquiry.

The report makes a number of policy recom-
mendations but does not deal with the behavior of
RCMP witnesses whe testified before the MeDonald

CORE REPORT
ON RCMP
DELIVERED

OTTAWA (CP) — The core report of a royal
commission into RCMP wrongdoing was delivered’ -
to the federal cabinet today. Soliettar-Genstal
. Robert Kaplan sald in a statement.

‘| Kaplan said it will be months before the 2,400-

. page report from Mr. Justice David C, McDonald

can be made public because some material dealing:
" with national security will first have to be deleted.

‘The government is committed however to make
. a8 full and broad a disclosure as the subject matter

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