Suspension - Law Society of Alberta

Lawyers may be suspended from the practice of law for a variety of reasons. When a lawyer is suspended, the lawyer may not engage in the practice of law and is not authorized to commission or notarize documents.

If a lawyer fails to pay either membership fees or professional liability insurance levies, the Law Society implements an administrative suspension. Lawyers may also face an administrative suspension if they fail to declare that they have a continuing professional development plan by the annual deadline. The suspended lawyers may be reinstated when they comply with the professional requirements.

Lawyers may also be suspended as a result of a discipline hearing, in which case the Hearing Committee will identify the term of the suspension. A lawyer may also be suspended as the result of failing to pay a fine or costs, as directed by a Hearing Committee.

The Benchers may order that a lawyer be suspended if the lawyer is convicted of an indictable offence, if the lawyer has been suspended or disbarred by another law society, or if the lawyer has resigned from being a member of another law society in the face of discipline.

The Law Society is required to issue a notice to the courts, to the profession and to other law societies when a lawyer is suspended. See the notices of suspension below.

Effective Date	Name	Type	Notice
2024/10/02	Administrative Suspensions	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2024/09/17	Hardeep Sangha	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2024/08/01	Shane Smith	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2024/07/23	Administrative Suspensions	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2024/07/08	Jason McKen	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2024/04/23	Jacob Roth	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2024/02/15	Michael P. McHenry	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2024/02/02	Jeffrey Peter O’Brien	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2024/01/29	Hardeep Singh Sangha	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2023/12/16	Gurpreet Singh Billing	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2024/01/01	Andrew Rice	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2023/09/01	Misha Sanghi	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2023/08/01	Mark Damm	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2023/05/01	Geoffrey Green	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2023/03/29	Navjeet Singh Ralh	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2023/02/21	Lindsay Doucet	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2023/02/07	Ayesha Naaz	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2023/01/31	Dana I. Carlson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2023/02/15	Christopher Neufeld	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2022/12/12	Brent R. Corbin	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2022/12/09	Billal Saleem	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2022/12/01	Wayne LeDrew	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2022/11/25	Mercy Amanoh	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2022/08/19	Helmut Berndt	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2022/07/07	Margaret Wheat	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2022/07/15	M. Naeem Rauf	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2022/02/25	Leonard Thom	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/12/24	Peter Mason	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/12/01	Warren W.C. Woo	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/07/30	Navjeet Ralh	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2021/06/21	Austin Nguyen	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/06/25	Teresina M. Bontorin	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/01/28	Paul A. Kazakoff	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/03/24	Christina Laughlin	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2021/03/01	Jason McKen	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/01/25	Kevan B. Peterson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2021/02/01	Matthew Ottewell	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/11/19	Jerry Kiriak	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/10/14	Shane R. Stevenson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/11/01	Lev Kramar	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/10/10	Joanne Heming	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/09/04	Navjeet Ralh	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2020/09/18	Ryan Persad	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/08/01	Mercy Amanoh	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/05/16	Joseph Amantea	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2020/02/01	Mary Odiase	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2019/12/19	Wei Wu	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2019/12/19	Roxanne Haniff-Darwent	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2019/10/01	Peter Mawson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2019/09/05	Douglas C. Hodgson	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2019/08/19	Grady C. Rowand	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2019/08/01	David Kobylnyk	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2019/06/25	Ivie Ihensekhien-Eraga	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2019/07/01	Dana Carlson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2018/12/03	Norman Kelly	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2018/10/15	Jose Luis Morales	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2018/10/06	Renu S. Prithipaul, QC	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2018/07/01	Taranjeet Aujla	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2018/07/01	Christopher Tahn	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2018/07/01	Clive O. Llewellyn	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2018/02/26	Chipo F. Jura	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2017/10/06	Renu S. Pritipaul, QC	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2017/09/05	Balraj Chhoker	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2017/07/29	Terrance Dawe	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2017/07/01	Richard Mirasty	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2001/11/20	Lorne Alfred Bruce Barry	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2017/04/20	Norman Kelly	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2017/09/01	John E. Fletcher	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2001/11/21	Max J. Wandinger	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/10/28	Madeline Wood	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/07/25	Christopher Zilinski	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2004/12/10	Pubalagan Vekatraman	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Salima Stanley-Bhanji	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2000/12/05	Henry Soltysiak	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2002/07/22	Kenneth Robert Sockett	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/06/11	Keith Shustov	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2000/07/20	John Shredder	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Mouane Sengsavang	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/10/15	John Schneider	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/05/27	John Schneider	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/05/26	Kristine Robidoux	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/05/08	Surinder Randhawa	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2014/09/29	Surinder Randhawa	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/04/25	Stephen B. Nelson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Leon John Pigott	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2000/10/01	Stephen B. Nelson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Ivor David McGurk	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/07/15	Wendy Kathleen McCallum	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Lee Dawn Mayzes	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Gwendolyn Grace Mansell	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/01/10	Carol Elizabeth MacKay	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2015/06/15	Christopher Leveque	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2014/06/16	Terence Leonard	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/08/01	Matthew Laurich	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	June Koska	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Robert Allen Kirk	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2012/05/29	Ajay Juneja	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Keith Allen Honeyman	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/08/29	Jodie K Holder	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Bruce Edward Harvey	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2000/07/26	Stephen W. Harrison	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/07/15	Veronika Hamza	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Bonnie Ann Gerow	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/01	Ned Frolich	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/08/21	Clarence H Ewasiuk	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2001/10/11	Douglas M. Doucette	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Douglas Lloyd Dorward	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2001/07/26	Wayne Allan Thomas Coultry	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/21	John H.G Casuga	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	Grant Allen Brown	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/07/15	Matthew Both	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/07/15	Ian Donald Bock	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2008/03/31	John Selwyn Beaumont	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2001/12/21	Lorne Alfred Bruce Barry	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2000/01/14	David C. Averback	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2008/04/07	David J. Penton	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/09/06	Navdeep Virk	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2015/12/14	Kamal Mahmudi-Azer	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	David Blott	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2016/11/01	Christopher McKay	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2016/07/01	Christopher McKay	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2016/03/23	Andrew Geisterfer	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2016/02/01	Richard Gordon Cormie	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2016/10/26	Bradley Mulder	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2015/01/15	Bruce Harvey	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/01/15	Alexander Koustov	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/04/01	Christopher Souster	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2015/11/02	Allan Botan	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/02/18	Darrell Elgert	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/01	John Vanderleek	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	Faiyaz Sumar	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	Kurt J.W. Sandstrom, QC	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	Sandra G. Redmond	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	M. Susan Lynham	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	Randy Gass	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	Trenton Brown	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2014/11/14	Todd Dear	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	Brian Anslow	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2014/03/31	K. June Koska	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/06/13	David Skrypichayko	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/06/16	Shelley Noel Phillips	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2003/02/13	Lorne Alfred Bruce Barry	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2017/08/01	Douglas Hodgson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/12/11	Hermo Pagtakhan	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/01/01	Martin C. Matheron	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/12/02	Madeline Joy Wood	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/11/09	Keith Franklyn Groves	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/10/27	Richard Jordan Garside	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/10/20	Peter Lewis Ridley	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/10/20	Hermo Pagtakhan	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/10/20	Kenneth John Rusnak	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/08/08	David Eugene Kiester	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/08/08	Hugh Wade Adamson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/05/31	Michael Heinrich Sondermann	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/01/24	Grant Edward Nickless	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/01/25	Neil John Richardson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/06/13	Thomas Stepper	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/01/30	Shelley Noel Phillips	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2006/01/30	Gina Marie Cosgrove	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2006/02/15	Blair A. Petterson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/02/16	Ravio Rooneem	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/03/31	Terry Britton	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/07/01	Victoria Anne Adamson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/11/06	Shaun Langin	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/10/19	James Douglas Braiden	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2006/11/28	Darren Matwe	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/03/22	Brett Coleman Townsend	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/04/13	Kenneth Mark McCourt	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/03/18	Roy Peter Rasmusen	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/03/24	R. Gordon Cormie	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2005/03/11	Garth Stanley Bailey	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2002/04/24	Brenda L. Harding	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2004/02/27	Kevin David Stonehouse	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2003/05/13	Thomas Stepper	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2004/08/16	Raivo Rooneem	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2004/02/04	David Francis Reay	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2004/10/22	Charles Francis McGee	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2003/12/20	James MacSween	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/04/20	Gerald Smith	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2002/09/01	Robert Wilson Lee	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/04/26	Susan Hendricks	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2002/02/01	Deren R. Lacey	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2002/07/25	David R. Holman	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/05/22	B. Gareth Palfy	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/06/22	Ivo Hula	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/06/26	Alan Collins	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/06/28	Jeffrey Plantje	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/07/10	Dennis McGechie	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2001/12/17	Douglas Michael Doucette	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/11/30	Mary Jo Rothecker	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/12/11	Brian D. Hassett	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/12/17	Bonnie Wald	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2015/01/15	Richard John F. Haynes	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/05/28	Shawn Allan Beaver	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2009/01/19	J. Grahame Loader	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2009/03/20	Sally Anne McLellan	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2009/03/31	Deris Spencer	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2009/04/01	Paul LeClair	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2009/11/03	Ihor Broda	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2009/04/22	Nicola Alexandra Davis	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2009/07/15	Terry Thomas	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2009/08/07	John A. Sutherland	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/12/17	Darrell Elgert	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/01/15	Richard Gariepy	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2010/01/15	Maurice Alexander Quinn	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2010/03/31	Kevin James Anderson	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2010/02/08	Ruellen Forsyth-Nicholson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/05/12	Nicola Alexandra Davis	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/06/24	Mary Jo Rothecker	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/06/09	Susan Hendricks	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/07/15	Katharine Richmond	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2010/07/15	Gavin McNeill Grant	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2010/01/15	Bonnie Ewing	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2010/09/08	Bonnie Ewing	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/10/07	Deris Spencer	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/07/06	Grant Edward Nickless	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/01/26	Roy Rasmusen	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/02/14	Jodie Holder	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/03/31	Daniela Chimisso dos Santos	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2011/04/21	Robert Burgener	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/09/01	Nancy Pearson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2010/11/20	Ming Joe Fong	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/02/25	Roy Elander	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/03/24	Darren Peterson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/03/22	Ernst Homberg	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/03/31	Peggy Mae Hartman	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2012/03/26	Dana I. Carlson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2011/08/11	Ajay Juneja	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2012/06/04	Arthur Charles Ruff	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2007/10/18	Peter B. Budd	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/31	Bruce E. Harvey	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/31	William J. Ross	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/31	Nicholas A. Cake	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/31	Jaime J. Oyarzun	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/31	Akash Khokhar	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/31	Gwendolyn Mansell	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/03/31	Alexander Pozniak	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/02/08	Brian McCullough	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/01/15	Noble E. Shanks	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2013/04/24	John F. Schneider	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/11/21	Rakesh Dewett	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2013/12/23	Pubalagan Venkatraman	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/12/10	Harris Hanson	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2013/06/17	Ludmila Byron and Timothy J. Byron	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2014/02/01	Navdeep Virk	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2015/03/31	Larry J. Zawislak	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/03/31	Karolee A. Zawislak	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/03/31	Andrew Singh	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/03/31	James Rosowsky	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/03/31	Debra MacIntyre	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/03/31	Erin Jackson	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2015/03/31	Milton B. Anderson	Administrative Suspension	View Notice
2016/01/27	Christian S. Ouellette	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2017/01/01	Robert MacKinnon	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2002/07/29	Keith Charles Perkins	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2016/11/16	Mohammad Ali Moughel	Interim Suspension	View Notice
2004/05/20	Brenda Lea Stothert-Kennedy	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2002/01/18	Douglas Doucette	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2004/04/06	Parry McDonald	Conduct Suspension	View Notice
2003/02/13	Lorne Alfred Bruce Barry	Conduct Suspension	View Notice