CANADA
Kitchener Post
By Gordon Paul
A Waterloo firm that worked as a court-appointed monitor overseeing the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement has been ordered to reimburse the federal government $874,000.
Crawford Class Action Services led a two-year investigation into the conduct of law firm Bronstein & Co. and concluded it did a substandard job representing more than 1,400 people making claims under the agreement.
Last October, British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Brenda Brown ordered Bronstein to reimburse the federal government $1.25 million as “special costs.”
Earlier this month, Brown ordered Crawford to reimburse the government $874,000 for “unreasonable or unnecessary amounts” billed to the government for the investigation.
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