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has been heavily criticized by numerous
Canadian legal commentators, including the Criminal Lawyers Association, for its "potential chilling effect upon defence counsel". After a long legal battle, on 1 June 2018, Groia prevailed, as the Supreme Court of Canada ultimately concluded that a finding of professional misconduct by the Law Society's Appeal Tribunal “against on the basis of incivility was unreasonable."
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scandal, the largest mining fraud in
Canadian history. The gold-mining scandal was the result of Bre-X Minerals's false reports of an enormous gold deposit at Busang, Indonesia. Bre-X bought the Busang site in March 1993 and, in October 1995, announced significant amounts of gold had been discovered,
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has found Groia guilty of incivility during the defence of
Felderhof. Groia's appeal against the LSUC's misconduct ruling was thrown out by an Ontario Divisional Court in early February 2015, but Groia stated that he intended to pursue the matter further at the Court of Appeal. The LSUC's judgement
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and participating in misleading press releases. The trial was an acrimonious one and was suspended in April 2001 when the OSC tried to have the presiding judge, Justice Peter Hryn, removed for alleged bias against the prosecution. This request was denied by justice Archie
Campbell, and, on 10
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in 1981. At the beginning of his career, he worked for McTaggart, Potts, Stone & Herridge and then McMillan Binch before moving to the
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Mr. Groia has been committed to legal education throughout his career. He has presented securities and corporate law papers at
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Mr. Groia is perhaps best known for his successful defence of John
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