By James Peters

Professional Discipline

Kamloops lawyer’s latest suspension is eight months for conflict of interest

Feb 23, 2024 | 3:19 PM

KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops lawyer will have to serve yet another suspension after the Law Society of B.C. (LSBC) found he engaged in professional misconduct.

Nickolaus Harold MacDonald Weiser was last suspended and fined last July after a LSBC hearing panel found he was practicing law while under a previous suspension.

In a news release issued Friday (Feb. 23), LSBC says Weiser has now received an eight-month suspension and will have to pay a further $16,668 in costs.

The society says it found four cases in which Weiser acted in a conflict of interest by acting for both sides in loan transactions. In three of those cases, he had a personal financial interest on the lender’s side of the equation.

LSBC says he also improperly borrowed money from a client and acted without integrity.

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“In making their decision, the hearing panel found that the conduct was egregious and deceptive, showed a continuous pattern of disregard by Weiser of his professional obligations and the interests of clients, and demonstrated a flagrant failure of his duty of integrity,” said the society in the news release.

“Weiser has a lengthy professional conduct record that shows a pattern of disregarding mandatory conflict rules and ignoring requests by the Law Society,” it added.

The full decision can be found here.