EDMONTON --
A disbarred Edmonton lawyer initially sentenced to one year in jail for contempt of court has partly won one of two appeals and will now serve 80 days in jail and perform 200 hours of community service.
Shawn Beaver was disbarred in February of 2017 after the law society found he had stolen from his clients’ trust accounts.
He subsequently recruited a junior lawyer to act as a false front to his continued unlicenced practice, according to a Feb. 22 Court of Queen’s Bench ruling.
He filed two distinct appeals, first of the the contempt of court judgment against him, and second, of the the subsequent one-year jail sentence.