

The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has a duty to regulate the legal profession in the public interest. That duty must include protecting vulnerable clients, especially when they are harmed by the very professionals they had trusted to help them.
Stemming from the remarkable decision of the Federal Court in Canada (Canadian Human Rights Commission) v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 FC 18 (CanLII) (“Attaran”), this blog post will deal with strategic considerations around raising an allegation of reasonable apprehension of bias during an administrative hearing, and other important take away lessons from Attaran.
A historic decision granting emergency access to psilocybin for Jody Lance, a Calgary man suffering from debilitating cluster headaches.
Watch our short documentary created by Tyler Lett in association with Hameed Law.
The current system forces patients to commit a crime to consume the psilocybin that the government approved for them under the Special Access Program.