ONTARIO PARALEGAL LICENSING EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024/2025 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION

If your personal sense of what is right conflicts with the paralegal rules and guidelines, what must you do? - You must follow the paralegal rules and guidelines. If you are faced with an ethical issue what must you do? - 1. Identify the professional responsibility issue(s) 2. Review and apply the applicable rules, case law, legislation, or secondary sources 3. List the possible options and asses the risks based on applicable rules, case law, legislation, or secondary sources 4. Seek guidance and support (for example: Law Society's practice management helpline) Why were the paralegal rules and guidelines created? - to ensure a high standard of conduct for the protection and benefit for the public interest what can the failure to comply with the paralegal rules and guidelines cause? - Prejudice a client's rights, discredit the profession, and result in discipline by the law society What does the practice management helpline do? - Assists paralegals and lawyers with info on the law with properly applying law society rules and by-laws and offers practice management guidance through a confidential telephone service What does the Coach and Advisor network do? - Provides paralegals and lawyers with access to shorter-term, outcome-oriented relationships with coaches and advisors who are drawn from the legal professions. Coaches support the implementation of best practices, and advisors assists with substantive and procedural law inquiries on client files. How is the competence of lawyers and paralegals monitored? - Law society administers spot audits, practice management reviews, and practice audit programs, all are remedial in nature. What do practice audits asses? - A paralegals practice management processes, as well as their compliance with the financial record-keeping requirements outlined in bylaw 9.