A Cambridge actual property dealer legal lawyer says a discipline listening to allegations against his client should be dropped due to an “abuse of process” by Ontario’s actual property regulator.
Steve Bailey is accused of more than one ethical breach of the legal guidelines governing the province’s real estate industry and is dealing with a disciplinary hearing this summer.
On Friday, his lawyer Lorne Honickman informed a Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO) panel that the regulator acted in bad faith in pursuing court cases against the dealer, and urged them to throw out the case.
A lawyer for RECO argued in reaction that the regulator no longer has been unfair to Bailey; the case is in the public interest, and the evidence against the dealer ought to be heard in a public hearing.
He stated it might be “extraordinary” to throw out a case in a professional field system earlier than it reaches trial.
He met with a RECO investigator in May 2017; after anonymous complaints were called into RECO, he wasn’t officially told he had changed into beneath research until August 2017.
Bailey was on the regulator’s board of directors at the time, and so RECO handled his case differently from others, the lawyer said.
He stated the policies have been now not been observed and tried to paint the lead investigator as cheating.
“They have been just like the police who broke right into a house to get the proof, then said, ‘Whoa, we ought to go get a warrant and do this the proper manner,'” he said.
