The Law Society of Alberta (LSA) has disbarred two lawyers nearly four years after they hired a private investigator to look into a Manitoba judge overseeing a case concerning COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

The LSA announced the decision to ban John Carpay and Jay Cameron from practicing in the province on Tuesday.

“The misconduct in this case, compounded by issues regarding integrity, leads us to find that a reasonable observer would surely consider that misconduct of this kind must inevitably result in disbarment,” the LSA said.

The allegations date back to 2021 when Carpay, the president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), and Cameron, the litigation director for the JCCF at the time, were involved in a court challenge in Manitoba of the province’s COVID-

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