Professional Misconduct and Viktor Hohots

Viktor Hohots: On Monday, LAO and three other community and advocacy groups will go before a disciplinary panel of the Law Society of Upper Canada seeking standing in the sentencing of Viktor Hohots, who pleaded guilty to professional misconduct in March for failing to adequately prepare the asylum claims of 13 of his clients, according to Metro News. Hohots has represented hundreds of Hungarian Roma refugees in recent years and In an unprecedented move, Legal Aid Ontario is seeking intervener status at the penalty hearing of a disgraced Toronto lawyer who has admitted to professional misconduct in representing Roma refugees. LAO has collaborated with the Law Society of Upper Canada on disciplinary proceedings in the past. But this is the first time LAO has applied for intervener status, said Genevieve Oger, spokesperson for legal aid, which paid Hohots to represent asylum cases with taxpayer dollars. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.