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Posted on 07/10/2015 9:06:53 AM PDT by george76
In April 2014, prominent Quebec City lawyer Lu Chan Khuong was detained after she walked out of a department store without paying for two pairs of jeans.
She avoided trial and publicity by accepting the Crown’s suggestion the case be dealt with “non-judicially” as part of a program to avoid cluttering up the courts with minor offences.
That, she hoped, was that. In May she was elected president of the provincial law society, the Barreau du Québec. “I will be the spokesperson for justice,” she declared when she took office last month.
But after a newspaper reported her brush with the law last week, the Barreau’s board of directors indefinitely suspended Khuong. Now, she is portraying herself as a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
The clash, which has shaken the professional order representing Quebec’s 25,000 lawyers, escalated Thursday when Khuong’s lawyer sent a letter to the Barreau threatening legal action if she is not immediately reinstated and given a public apology.
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The uproar in the normally staid law society was sparked by a July 1 report in La Presse revealing Khuong’s arrest for shoplifting.
When the reporter first raised the matter, she initially said she did not know what he was talking about. She later called back to confirm the arrest, explaining she had been caught by surprise in the initial interview.
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The board of directors judges that the role of president demands a high level of integrity necessary to maintain confidence in the institution
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Quebec City lawyer Lu Chan Khuong
A ghetto name if ever there was one.
“Quebec City lawyer Lu Chan Khuong”
She’s really, really French, now isn’t she! I am amazed because Quebec City is about as French as you can get in the province. When you’re there, you’d swear you’ve been “transported” across the Atlantic.
Are Chinese women as good at speaking French as they are at English?
I was just there on vacation last month and it is a photographer’s dream. I enjoyed the people and the whole city.
She’s an idiot, should have not applied for the position and kept a low profile. Lawyers have no ethics, just love money.
“Are Chinese women as good at speaking French as they are at English?”
My guess from the name is that she’s Vietnamese. The French were big in Vietnam (can you say Michelin Rubber Plantation), so she probably speaks French.
Québec took in a LOT of “boat people” refugees in the 1970s; they could speak at least some French and many were fluent. She’s probably in the second generation from that cohort.
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