A British Columbia lawyer has been ordered to pay more than $2.75 million in special costs after encouraging clients to invest in two commercial real estate projects while he and his law firm were insolvent.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Veronica Jackson issued the ruling on Sept. 3, ordering Lindsay Ross, his wife Joanne Ross, L.A.C. Ross Law Corporation and My Wee World Enterprises Inc. to pay the plaintiffs $2,750,125.28 jointly and severally.
The costs award follows a 50-day trial and earlier rulings in which Jackson found that Ross breached fiduciary duties he owed to his clients. In a December 2024 ruling, she also found that the defendants’ conduct during the litigation was “reprehensible” and warranted special costs….