Law society revokes former lawyer James Bowie’s licence
Disgraced former Ottawa lawyer James Bowie had his licence to practise law formally revoked by the Law Society of Ontario months
of extortion, criminal harassment and uttering threats related to a former client.
to a four-year penitentiary term in September after Justice Paul Cooper found him guilty of criminal harassment and extorting a friend by pressuring her to obtain a gun to “take care” of his former client. He was also found guilty of uttering threats to kill his former client, Leanne Aubin.
Aubin previously
against Bowie.
The Law Society suspended his licence indefinitely in 2022 after he was found to have engaged in professional misconduct. Bowie “failed to co-operate with three investigations of the Law Society,” according to the tribunal, and failed to produce information and documents despite requests from an LSO investigator between December 2021 and June 2022.
The Law Society ruled Bowie engaged in professional misconduct when he again failed to produce information and documents despite similar requests from another investigator between November 2022 and January 2023.
He was ordered to pay $5,000 in each investigation.
Bowie launched his legal practice in 2017 and gained a large social media following by “live-tweeting” the various bail hearings related to the 2022 convoy protests.
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