A prominent securities lawyer breached the rules for civil behaviour during his aggressive defence of a man charged in the 1990s billion-dollar Bre-X mining fiasco, Ontario’s top court ruled Tuesday. In a split decision, the court sided with the society that regulates the legal profession in Ontario in finding Joe Groia went too far. Groia defended the only person charged in the history-making securities scandal, and the Law Society of Upper Canada, which at one point suspended him for two months and ordered him to pay $247,000 in costs — later reduced to one month suspension and $200,000.

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