Scott Thomas Johnston of CBM Lawyers LLP made inappropriate comments and gestures to female colleagues, a Law Society of BC panel found.
A real estate lawyer has admitted he sexually harassed two employees at his Langley law firm, while drunk at an office event, and has agreed to a six-week suspension of his credentials and a $2,500 fine.
On the bus, Johnston engaged with a female articling student, complimenting her lipstick and sunglasses. At the restaurant, Johnston told the panel he performed what he called a “creepy uncle” routine, which involved him peering from around a corner, staring with a “creepy” expression on his face. At one point Johnston held her close, by the arm, and touched her stomach with his other hand as part of the joke about the food baby.
For part of the return bus trip, Johnston sat next to the woman and told her she had been “ballsy” to ask for a raise and that his law partner had been mad at her for doing so.Johnston also talked about how another employee had asked for a raise when they did not deserve one; he also told the woman that she had a bright future at the firm, the panel noted.
Feeling uncomfortable with how the evening panned out, the articling employee went to the firm’s human resources department and subsequently filed a workplace bullying and harassment report with WorkSafeBC in relation to CBM and a discrimination complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal. She quit on Oct. 19, 2020, after the firm revised its workplace policies for such matters.
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