The Law Society of Ontario has suspended the licence of Timothy James Harmar, a lawyer based in Sault Ste. Marie, for a number of conduct violations, including fabricating law he filed in a case. Harmar has also failed to respond to inquiries from the Law Society and will have to serve another two-month suspension should he ever be reinstated. As it now stands, he is suspended indefinitely. According to the society’s decision, he failed to co-operate with three investigations into his conduct between June 2025 and February 2026 “by not providing complete and prompt responses to requests for information and documents.” Harmar is also accused of practising law between April and May 2025 when his licence was suspended. A hearing into the allegations against him was held July 10, but he failed to show up. Complaints surfaced in January 2025 He has been licensed since 2014 and has practised law in the Sault since then. Complaints about him began in January 2025, the first of three complaints the Law Society received. He was supposed to represent a woman in an Ontario Labour Relations Board matter in November 2024, but failed to do the work or communicate with her after he was hired. An investigation began June 16, 2025, that Harmar was telling people he could practise law when not entitled to do so, “misappropriated, mishandled, or misapplied trust monies,” failed to communicate and failed to provide promised legal services. In the second case, Harmar was representing Ward 11 Coun. Bill Leduc in Sudbury, who was suing Greater Sudbury in connection with Election Act charges Leduc was facing. On April 30, 2025, the lawyer for Greater Sudbury contacted the Law Society to complain Harmar “was practising while suspended.’ “This included serving factums and appearing in court gowned while not advising him or the court that he was suspended.” Leduc also “expressed concerns that the lawyer was difficult to reach, missed court appearances, and did not meet deadlines.” And a third complaint related to a defendant Harmar was representing in Pembroke in February of this year. “The complainant asserted that the lawyer had filed a factum in a motion that contained fabricated law,” the Law Society decision said. “He included a decision from the court dated Feb. 4, 2026, dismissing the motion and commenting on the Lawyer’s conduct.” The society sent several messages seeking information and responses to the complaints beginning June 16, 2025, with the final one sent Jan. 21, 2026. Harmar failed to respond. Received no response “In the absence of any response, this proceeding was initiated April 28, 2026,” the Law Society said. “From that date to this hearing, none of the requested material has been produced or any communication responded to.” He was suspended for a month for not responding to inquiries, and another month for practising law while suspended. However, his licence has been suspended indefinitely because he has not responded to requests or appeared before the law society. Should his licence ever be restored, he will have to serve an additional two months of law licence suspension and pay $4,292 in costs before July 2027. Read the full decision here.
