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TORONTD (CP) — Many -
oe tan Toronto's

lawyers’ are cu
prices as never ‘before ana
while it may mean bargains
for. consumers who. shop
around, the Law Society: of
tee canada is cracking
The society has! ‘ghee

some: of its régulatierds’ the
because it fears that cut-rate;i:

quality, which could cause,
cllents grief years or even

aa

decades ‘later, goes ‘along
with cut-rate prices,

George Finlayson, society

treasurer, sald im an in-
terview that price cutting ip
the most persistent com-
plaint the society gets from
the profession. -

Prices sre heing cut
‘in real estate law, so
sclety now requires that

lawyers keep . records of
work done in closing a sale.

“They never used to keep

,. gays Finlayson.

We willbe very its with ©

them he.
suspended or disbarred if it
is bad enough,”

There is no set” fee

schedule for Ontario lawyers ;

as there is for the province's
doctors, The only exception

is legal aid, used only
people unable to afford a
lawyer. Legal aid pays
senior lawyers §60 an hour
and dniee tawyers $48 an

iourly rates for general
legal services can run from
$50 for a lawyer in the

“suburbs working on his own

to §200 for a senior lawyer in
a downtown firm with 28
lawyers on staff. -

A day in court could cost

by . $400 or $2,400. An undisputed

divorce case with . no

problems can cost between -

$300 and $600. The fee for
closing an $80,000 house sale

Supreme Court to judge

“OTPAWA (CP) — Thenine
Hdges of the Supreme Court

anada will. sit In
wa ment today on the
coittroversial law of the
Quéhée. National Assembly.

that makes French the of- -

fi¢lal language of the
rovince’s - courts and
egislature. ”

Two Quebee courts — the
Superior Court. and the
Quebec Court of Appeal ~—
déclared the * ‘Taw. un-
edustitutlonal: Bat’ it’ re-
mains in effect ‘pending the
of the: “Supreme
Court. Doe

Camille Laurit quebec’ ‘a
minister of cultural develop-
ment and mastermind of the
language law, has expressed
skepticism ,oyer the final
outcome, He told the Quebec
assembly that’ te high court
ustially rules agalnst Quebec
"but cxcgptions are always

e,’

He told the Gueber legisla-

ture;

Juebec’s language law case

‘New - Brunswick.

“The political will -of
will not proceed by

court opinions but by the will
of-the majority of Quebecers
which - will be expressed

during the referendum."

The Partl Quebecois is

committed to holding a
rendum

refe

Quebecers we they
wish to stay within Con-
federation. No date has yet
been set for the vote,

"The province of Manitoba,
iteelf involved in a legal
battle, over language, will
line’ up with Quebec in the.
Suprem Court, :

‘The f four Montreal lawyers .
who sparked the challenge

sgainat the Quebec laws will ©

be. joined by lawyers from
the federal justice depart-
ment and. the. povines of

Brunswick ig the '
nadian province whic
declared itself bilingual.
While Quebec insists It has"
the right to declare iteelf a
Prenchrspenkisg province,

Plant costs ‘said:
major problem’

’ EDMONTON (CP) — One

al: the bi t hurdles to
heavy oil and oil-sands.
development is the

staggering cost of building
the’* 140,000-barrel-a-day
plants, like the
Ltd. and Great Canadian Oil
Sahds Ltd. plants at.ort

MAM, ABR vse Isao 02 sultipe fire,

ference on heavy Hn and ‘ol
satids studied on Saturday
the question of smaller,
mére economical plants to
exploit ‘heavy oil in
developing countries a3, well
as, in some of Alberta’s
smaller pools. :

Delegates from smaller or
éeveloping. countries
shudder when they hear of
the $4-to $5-billion price-tags
for auch projects as the Esso
Resources Ltd. Cold Lake
heavy oll plant and the
Alsands mining project at’.
Fort McMurray.

They queation their ability
0. finance such massive

projects and wonder whether
fhelr relatively small
reserves of domestic oil

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sands could support auch
investments.

Yet these countries, faced
with the increasing cost of
imported oil, want to begin
developing their domeatic

de — heavy oil reserves,

T. J McCann, who heads.
an, Edmontep-based ..con-

tae oo
facilities have certain ad-
vantages,

While it may not be
possible to prove that a
20,000-a-day upgrading
facility is less coatly than the
giant facility, there is no
evidence that It would be
more expensive, he said.

in seme paneer a small
upgra plant adjacen
a heavy ail fleld might be
better than 4 central facility
that would’ result in the
diffleult problem of heavy oil
transportation
“Worldwide, the need is
for quickly built, easily
operated and maintained,
reHable and minimum cost
facilities," said McCann.

“Small upgraders, using
certain processes, can be
largely shop prefabricated,
permitting comparable
economics to the larger
plants, normally considered

today.’
L. W. Trevoy, a Syncrude
researcher, sald
metal extraction plants
could recover valuable

heavy metals from the ;

tailings tossed out of a
major oll sands plants, Tre

voy told the conference that
zircon and titaniwn, worth
an eatimated $20.6 million a’
year, goes out in the tailings
of the Syncrude plant:

BLADE HEIGHT
ADJUSTS EASILY -

small-scale -

Manitoba saya it has thé
right to make English the

only official language within -

ite borders.

English and French were
given equal status in both

provinces. They sald that
Quebeo and Manitoba had

attempted ‘to alter the.
British North America Act, a .

power not possessed by a
single province.

The language case has at-
tracted a lot of attention and
court officials have had calla’

’ from United States lawyera

wishing to attend.
However seating space Is
limited in the main cour-

troom. It accommodates less

than 100 persons: and seats ~

are on a firstcome, first-

. served basis,
Courts have found ‘that--

Since 1968, when the then
Trudeau government in-
treduced the Official
Languages Act making

-French and English the

official Innguages of the
federal government, the
court installed a translation
system. .

It is used only when re- :

quested by any in an
l case, Wabe es party
ed for the vein

‘Monday, it will be in’

operation on the court’s own
initiative.

'

can in range from $150 to $900.

of the reasons for the
reduced prices may be the
large numbers of lawyers,
about '1,-000, entering the
profession each year. There
how are 15,800 lawyers in
Ontario — up from 4,002 in
1901 and 10,601 in 1078. About
half are ‘located in Metro-
politan Torcnto.

Another problem is the de- ”

pressed state of the real

estate market. Lawyers
whose . offices have been
geared to handling real
estate law are finding it
harder to do business.

Many a len will drop
prices on one using it
as a loss leader, then hope
the cellent will bring other
more lucrative problema to
them later.

“Up to 60 per cent of negil-
gence charges against

Bet

. The Herald, Moaday, June i, is, Page 5

lawyers are due to mistakes
they make In real catate
deals and the premium rates
for insurance have tripled in
just a few years becausa of
increasing numbers of
claims. The minimum
amount a lawyer requires —
covering him for $100,000 —
“the Law Society's theory
. The Law "s

is that a lawyer who charges
$150 to close a deal cannot be

We" ve Moved!

TO

Cut rate lawyers said cause of crackdown

taking time to do thorough 5

Some lawyers

and moat of the time they

are

percentages,"

away withit. It works out all

right."’

Technically a lawyer is
directly liab! for any Joes of

profit which arises from his
error or omission.

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