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Paralegal Licensing Exam (2021 Ontario Paralegal Licensing Exam) Questions & Answers
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Paralegal Licensing Exam (2021 Ontario ParalegalLicensing Exam) Questions & Answers
If your personal sense of what is right conflicts with the paralegal rules and
guidelines, what must you do? ✔️Ans - You must follow the paralegal
rules and guidelines.
If you are faced with an ethical issue what must you do? ✔️Ans - 1.
Identify the professional responsibility issue(s)
2. Review and apply the applicable rules, case law, legislation, or secondary
sources
3. List the possible options and asses the risks based on applicable rules,
case law, legislation, or secondary sources
4. Seek guidance and support (for example: Law Society's practice
management helpline)
Why were the paralegal rules and guidelines created? ✔️Ans - to ensure a
high standard of conduct for the protection and benefit for the public
interest
what can the failure to comply with the paralegal rules and guidelines
cause? ✔️Ans - Prejudice a client's rights, discredit the profession, and
result in discipline by the law society
What does the practice management helpline do? ✔️Ans - Assists
paralegals and lawyers with info on the law with properly applying law
society rules and by-laws and offers practice management guidance
through a confidential telephone service
What does the Coach and Advisor network do? ✔️Ans - Provides
paralegals and lawyers with access to shorter-term, outcome-oriented
relationships with coaches and advisors who are drawn from the legal
professions. Coaches support the implementation of best practices, and
advisors assists with substantive and procedural law inquiries on client
files.
, How is the competence of lawyers and paralegals monitored? ✔️Ans -
Law society administers spot audits, practice management reviews, and
practice audit programs, all are remedial in nature.
What do practice audits asses? ✔️Ans - A paralegals practice management
processes, as well as their compliance with the financial record-keeping
requirements outlined in by-law 9.
What's the process of a complaint about a paralegal or lawyer? ✔️Ans -
You must send the law society in writing the complaint which is first
reviewed by the CSC's complaints and compliance department to make sure
the issue is within jurisdiction. If the issue can be resolved informally, then
the intake and resolution department will handle the complaint. If it is a
serious allegation on professional misconduct, incapacity, or incompetence,
then it is likely to result in discipline against the paralegal or lawyer, and
the paralegal/lawyer will be referred to the investigation services for an
investigation.
What are the investigation services options? ✔️Ans - they can close the
matter, with or without remedial action, or make a recommendation to the
proceedings authorization committee (PAC) that the matter be remediated
or sent for a hearing.
What are the different ways in which a hearing may discipline
paralegals/lawyers? ✔️Ans - Revoking their license, participate in CPD or
professional training, cooperate in a practice review, restrict their practice
to certain areas, provide legal services, not maintain a trust account, pay a
fine, refund to a client all or a portion of fees, and/or start or continue
treatment or counselling
Can a paralegal/lawyer appeal an decision of the hearing panel? ✔️Ans -
Yes, they can appeal to an appeal panel, or appeal the decision of an appeal
panel to a Divisional Court.
T or F: If the Law Society receives a complaint against a paralegal, the
paralegal will be notified and given an opportunity to respond? ✔️Ans -
True
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