Citation issued: November 8, 2021
Rowan MacKenzie Davison
Citations are authorized by the Law Society of BC's Discipline Committee and list allegations against a lawyer that will be considered at a discipline hearing. Please note that allegations in a citation are unproven until a discipline hearing panel has determined their validity.
Nature of conduct to be inquired into:
1. Between approximately January 2020 and January 2021, you sexually harassed your employee A, when you did one or both of the following:
(a) made comments of a sexual nature; and
(b) engaged in unwelcome advances, contrary to one or both of rules 2.2-1 and 6.3-3 of the Code of Professional Conduct for British Columbia.
This conduct constitutes professional misconduct or conduct unbecoming the profession, pursuant to s. 38(4) of the Legal Profession Act.
2. Between approximately February 2020 and January 2021, in the course of communicating with your employees A and B, you made discourteous, offensive, or discriminatory remarks to them, that you knew or ought to have known were one or more of the following:
(a) unwelcome;
(b) intimidating;
(c) humiliating; and
(d) would likely create a hostile work environment that would adversely affect individuals employed by your firm, contrary to one or more of rules 2.2-1, 6.3-4 and 6.3-5 of the Code of Professional Conduct for British Columbia.
This conduct constitutes professional misconduct or conduct unbecoming the profession, pursuant to s. 38(4) of the Legal Profession Act.