The Duty to Disclose Authorities

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Law Society of Upper Canada, Rules of Professional Conduct
http://www.lsuc.on.ca/with.aspx?id=2147502073#ch5_sec1-2

Relationship To The Administration Of Justice
5.1 THE LAWYER AS ADVOCATE
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Advocacy
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5.1-2 When acting as an advocate, a lawyer shall not: ...

(f) knowingly misstate the contents of a document, the testimony of a witness, the substance of an argument, or the provisions of a statute or like authority;
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(i) deliberately refrain from informing the tribunal of any binding authority that the lawyer considers to be directly on point and that has not been mentioned by an opponent;
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