Winnipeg lawyer charged with multiple counts of professional misconduct

Dave Baxter · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 4:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

A Winnipeg lawyer has been recovered blameworthy connected much than a twelve charges of breaching his nonrecreational codification of conduct, aft 3 antithetic citations were filed against him, and helium volition present hold to larn what punishment helium volition face. 

Paul Sydney Vyamucharo-Shawa of Winnipeg-based Shawa Law Office is blameworthy of a full of 17 charges of breaching the Law Society of Manitoba's Code of Conduct, says the determination handed down connected June 20.

The 67-year aged lawyer has been deed with 3 antithetic citations since outpouring 2022, accusing him of acts including breaching an undertaking to the Law Society, breach of integrity, nonaccomplishment to dainty the tribunal with candour, courtesy and respect, and nonaccomplishment to beryllium courteous, civilian and enactment successful bully faith. 

He was besides accused of signaling conversations with clients and different lawyers without informing participants of his intentions, and of sending correspondence that is "abusive, violative oregon different inconsistent with a due code of a nonrecreational connection from a lawyer."

A three-person sheet decided Vyamucharo-Shawa is blameworthy of 17 of the 20 charges helium faced successful 3 abstracted citations, filed connected May 26, 2022, Feb. 26, 2024, and March 13, 2024. 

The sheet was "particularly concerned" with what it perceived to beryllium a "refusal oregon possibly an inability to judge work and accountability for behaviour which was intelligibly and demonstrably unacceptable," and said due to the fact that of those concerns, they recovered immoderate of his grounds "generally unreliable," the determination says.

A citation filed successful May 2022 includes charges of respective improprieties related to a existent property transaction successful which Vyamucharo-Shawa and different enactment were involved, portion the citation filed connected Feb. 26, 2024, is besides related to that transaction.

The March 13, 2024, citation included a complaint of failing to transportation connected the signifier of instrumentality and to discharge each of his responsibilities to a erstwhile client, the court and the public. 

Vyamucharo-Shawa has been a subordinate of the Law Society of Manitoba since 1989, and this is not the archetypal clip helium has been successful blistery h2o with the society. 

In 2019, helium pleaded blameworthy connected 5 charges of nonrecreational misconduct and served a six-month suspension from practising, portion successful 2000, helium pleaded blameworthy to 9 charges, 3 involving misappropriating funds from a spot account. 

He besides received a ceremonial caution successful 1999 for breaching a spot condition. 

The Law Society said successful their determination they volition present interaction their subject committee head to put a day for proceeding to determine what sanctions volition beryllium handed to Vyamucharo-Shawa.