A Langley lawyer will be suspended for four and a half months after admitting to professional misconduct that included sexual harassment, racist remarks and creating a hostile work environment.
A hearing panel of the Law Society of B.C. Tribunal decided on July 12 to accept a joint submission from lawyer Rowan MacKenzie Davison and the other parties involved in the case. The decision was published on the law society website last week.
There were two separate citations against Davison containing five total allegations. Collectively, they alleged that Davison had committed misconduct between 2018 and 2021 by "making unwelcome remarks, engaging in unwanted contact of a sexual nature and making racist or discriminatory remarks to several employees," according to a statement from the law society.
Among the specific allegations detailed in the decision were two attempts to kiss female subordinates, multiple instances of touching female employees' clothes, and an instance in which he asked one if she was wearing a bra.
He also referred to himself and others as "round-eyed people," while speaking to a group that included a person of South Asian descent and told two employees "not to hire any brown people," according to the decision.
When questioned about this last remark, Davison told the employees "words to the effect that he was 'tired of the drama brown people bring to the office,'" the decision reads.
In the joint submission, Davison acknowledged that his...
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