{"id":5392,"date":"2021-01-05T21:24:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5392"},"modified":"2021-01-05T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:25:03","slug":"anti-free-speech-campaigner-richard-warman-has-a-meltdown-because-law-society-wont-punish-lawyer-who-advertized-in-your-ward-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=5392","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Free Speech Campaigner Richard Warman Has A Meltdown Because Law Society Won’t Punish Lawyer Who Advertized in YOUR WARD NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CANADIAN LAWYER<\/a>| LEXPERT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawyer who advertised in pro-Nazi newsletter ‘Your Ward News’ cleared by Law Society<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Lawyer who lodged complaint in 2016 says result ‘ludicrous both in terms of the delay and outcome’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BY Aidan Macnab<\/a> 05 Jan 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Law Society of Ontario will take no further action against a lawyer who advertised in the pro-Nazi, Holocaust-denying and misogynist tabloid Your Ward News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawyer, David Faed, participated in a Regulatory Meeting with the Law Society\u2019s Proceedings Authorization Committee<\/a> in November. The committee announced in December that while placement of the ad was not in the public interest and inconsistent with the professionalism standards under the Rules of Professional Conduct, the regulatory issue had been addressed and no further action would be taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, the editor and publisher of Your Ward News <\/em>were convicted of wilful promotion of hatred against Jews and Women, contrary to s. 319(2) of the Criminal Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2016, Ottawa-based human rights lawyer Richard Warman brought the complaint against Faed. Warman argued his association with the publication violated a number of sections of the Rules of Professional Conduct, including s. 6.3.1-1: that lawyers have a \u201cspecial responsibility to respect the requirements of human rights laws\u201d and \u201chonour the obligation not to discriminate.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warman says Faed\u2019s matter should not have taken so long to conclude and that the misconduct was \u201cself-evident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is ludicrous both in terms of the delay and outcome,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2026 Whether a lawyer should advertise in a neo-Nazi tabloid that openly promotes hatred of women and Jews should not have been a difficult question.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis investigation by the Law Society of Ontario has been a failure from start to finish\u2026 There is no way under the sun, that an investigation of that nature should take four and a half years.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law Times <\/em>contacted Faed, but he declined to comment for this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your Ward News <\/em>was operated by editor James Sears and publisher Leroy St. Germaine, who were found guilty of wilful promotion of hatred<\/a> by Justice Richard Blouin of the Ontario Court of Justice. The publication was found to have<\/a> contained the glorification of Nazism and Adolph Hitler, Holocaust denial, the demonization of Jewish people and of women and the celebration and promotion of rape. In 2016 Canada Post stopped distributing Your Ward News<\/em> after Warman filed a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Regulatory Meeting<\/a>, Faed told the Law Society he had not read Your Ward News<\/em>, was unaware of the nature of its content and that he does not share \u201cany hateful views that may have been espoused by the publisher or editor.\u201d The Law Society added that Faed had withdrawn the ad three years ago and was \u201cunlikely to conduct himself similarly in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But despite Faed\u2019s explanation to the Law Society, Warman says Faed continued advertising into 2017, after Warman had contacted him and explained his concerns with the publication\u2019s content. He adds that Sears and St. Germaine were required under their release conditions to stop publishing \u2013 they were arrested in 2017<\/a> \u2013 so Faed cannot be credited for no longer advertising with them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis idea that somehow of his own good graces, Mr. Faed stopped the advertising in Your Ward News <\/em>is simply \u2013 I don’t believe that’s a credible explanation,\u201d says Warman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faed\u2019s ads also included a disclaimer stating: \u201cIndependent. I am not involved with the New Constitution Party of Canada,\u201d which Faed believed would \u201cdistance himself\u201d from the contents of the publication, said the Law Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to its website, the New Constitution Party of Canada is \u201can all-inclusive federal party based on Libertarian doctrine, Christian values, and National Socialist ideology.\u201d The party, which is led by Sears, \u201cincorporates the intellect of Dr. Ron Paul, the heart of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, and the soul of Jesus Christ, into one powerful political Chimera that will crush the Marxist beast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sears is representing himself on appeal. He seeks to have his conviction overturned on the basis his former lawyer was incompetent, partly for refusing to call a witness who would have testified that gas chambers were not used against Jews in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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