Brandon lawyer can contact female colleagues for work only
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A Brandon lawyer has been restricted from contacting female lawyers in the province for anything other than work.
A notice posted on the Law Society of Manitoba website states Ryan William Fawcett has agreed to an undertaking that he does not communicate with female law society members “by FaceTime, text, email or other direct messaging or video communications application, for any reason other than for strictly work-related matters.”
If Fawcett is to contact a female lawyer for a “non-work-related reason,” he must obtain written permission from the law society, says the notice.
Fawcett was called to the bar in 2001 and works for Legal Aid Manitoba.
The undertaking, the notice says, will remain in effect until it is varied or terminated by the law society.
No formal disciplinary action has been taken against Fawcett. The notice does not indicate the reason for the undertaking.
Fawcett “provided the undertaking voluntarily,” said law society director of regulation Leah Kosokowsky in an email. “Accordingly, I am unable to provide you with any other information regarding the circumstances that led to the undertaking.”
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