The Law Society of Ontario Appeal Division dismissed an appeal and ordered the attorney to submit to a full forensic examination
Mr. Hutton was called to the bar in 2002. He is an experienced civil litigator who practises in the area of corporate/commercial litigation and construction law. He has no discipline history and no conduct complaints outstanding against him. The hearing panel found Mr. Hutton to be a talented and well-respected lawyer, who has served his clients well.
Mr. Hutton says that:
a. two former girlfriends of his were government security agents tasked with monitoring, screening, and recruiting him as an intelligence operative;
b. his father, members of his former law firm and a client are secretly employees of Canada’s security apparatus; and
c. there are a number of lawyers and law firms that are secretly part of Canada’s security apparatus, as a result of which they operate with a “dual capacity,” owing potentially conflicting duties to clients and to the state.
In 2019 Mr. Hutton ran for election as a bencher. The platform in his campaign included the statement that “I will advocate for the creation of procedural mechanisms to investigate all lawyers and law-firms to determine if they operate with a ‘duel-capacity’ [sic].“
Mr. Hutton commenced litigation in Federal Court against his former girlfriends and the Attorney General of Canada (AGC). Some of this litigation has been dismissed and some continues.
A forensic psychiatrist retained by the Law Society has advised, based on a paper review, that there is a reasonable likelihood that Mr. Hutton is experiencing a major mental illness of a psychotic nature, most likely a delusional disorder, persecutory type.
Mr. Hutton denies that he is experiencing a delusional disorder. He maintains that his beliefs are well-founded and that he is not delusional but a victim. He says that he was targeted by the Canadian security apparatus and his proceedings in Federal Court are brought on this well-founded belief.
(Mike Frisch)