Retired Salmon Arm lawyer facing sexual harassment allegation of past client<\/p>\n
Published 9:33 am Friday, August 21, 2026<\/p>\n
A retired Salmon Arm lawyer was cited by the Law Society of B.C. (LSBC) regarding alleged sexual harassment of a past client. <\/p>\n
The Aug. 5 citation was sent to Ian Frank McTavish, advising him of a yet-to-be-scheduled hearing, to be conducted by the LSBC\u2019s discipline committee, inquiring into his \u201cconduct or competence\u201d between Sept. 9, 2023 and July 31, 2024, when he was still a member of the Law Society. <\/p>\n
According to the LSBC citation<\/a>, McTavish is alleged to have sexually harassed a client he was representing in a family law matter, contravening the rules of the Code of Professional Conduct For British Columbia<\/a> by doing one or more of the following: <\/p>\n \u2022 making unwelcome sexual comments, innuendoes, invitations, or advances toward the Client; The citation advises should McTavish fail to appear for the hearing, the Hearing Panel may proceed in his absence. <\/p>\n McTavish retired in 2024 after 51 years in law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired Salmon Arm lawyer facing sexual harassment allegation of past client Published 9:33 am Friday, August 21, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-866544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 engaging in unsolicited or unwelcome physical contact or touching of the Client; and
\u2022 communicating with the Client in a manner that was offensive or inconsistent with the proper tone of a professional communication from a lawyer.<\/p>\n