The high-profile lawyer who was expected to represent disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard in a criminal case in Winnipeg is withdrawing from the position for “ethical reasons,” he said.
Brian Greenspan told provincial court Judge Stacy Cawley over the phone from Toronto Friday there was “an irreconcilable breakdown in the solicitor-client relationship,” characterizing it as “adversarial.”
“This is the first time in the 50 years I’ve practised law that I’ve made an application, a formal application, to be removed from the record,” he said.
“In my view, [I] have a professional obligation both to the court and to the Crown, once there has been a breakdown in the
