
West Van mayor barred for practising regulation for 2 yrs: LSBC
The mayor of West Vancouver has been barred from working towards his day job after he admitted to three occasions of “professional misconduct” whilst practising legislation.
The Regulation Modern society of British Columbia states Mayor Mark Sager are not able to follow regulation for two decades.
The misconduct is in relation to the preparing of a client’s will, the LSBC explains.
“Sager admitted to performing in a conflict of curiosity by producing the preparing of the will, in which he was named executor and trustee and gained complete discretion to use estate money to journey to England when his shopper had not gained impartial legal suggestions,” the LSBC said.
“He also admitted to withdrawing $44,800.00, such as taxes, in executor’s service fees and $26,790.81, such as taxes, in treatment and administration expenses from the estate funds prior to acquiring approval from all of the beneficiaries or the court docket to do so.”
The modern society added that Sager “failed to manage the essential data in regard of the disbursement of estate funds and did not make or maintain call with the residual beneficiaries for close to nine years.”
Sager’s prohibition starts on April 1, 2024, and he has agreed to even more situations, the culture says. These involve not performing as or in any potential as a lawyer in B.C., and “not to act in any fiduciary roles arising from a solicitor-client connection, and not to manage any fiduciary home as described in the Legislation Modern society Principles.”
In a assertion to CityNews, Sager suggests he will resign from his Law Society membership as of April 1 “and refocus my comprehensive focus on our group.”
“When I was elected mayor, I committed to leaving my lawful exercise to commit all of my time to the significant troubles going through West Vancouver. Sadly, problems to the Legislation Society delayed my resignation. 5 of the eight allegations versus me have been dropped and three minimal problems have been settled,” he reported.
It is not the first time the lawyer has been found to have committed misconduct by the LSBC. In 2018, Sager was identified to have “improperly” recognized a $75,000 reward from his godmother when creating her will. He was fined $20,000 by the modern society for that incident.
Sager was also the subject of a Port Moody law enforcement investigation, Elections BC confirmed to CityNews in November 2023, following allegations of “potential expending irregularities” have been recognized for the duration of a assessment of Sager’s 2022 election campaign.
–With information from Cole Schisler