The answer
is YES!
Notaries owe
the same duty of care to our clients as lawyers.[1] This issue has been the subject of
much litigation in the past, and each time the courts have held notaries bear
the same responsibility to their clients as lawyers do.
Esser
v Luom, 2004
BCCA 359
Anakotta
et al. v Perusini et al., 2004 BCSC 168
Flandro
v Mitha
et al. (1992), 93 D.L.R. (4th)
222
Ruxton and Ruxton v
Kelly, Peters & Associates Ltd. et al., [1985] 1 W.W.R. 66
Ferreira and Ferreira
v Amando & Pereira, [1985] 1 W.W.R. 78
Dorndorf et al. v.
Hoeter, [1981]
29 B.C.L.R. 71
