Practice Resources

Client Identification and Verification Rules

The Client Identification and Verification Rules will come into effect on July 1, 2009.

• Brief history
• Introduction to the Rules
• Client Identification and Verification Rules
• Frequently asked questions and answers
• More Frequently asked questions and answers (Federation of Law Societies of Canada)
• • English
  • French
• Sample forms
• • Agreement with Agent 
  • Verification of Individual's Identity in Canada by Commissioner or Guarantor
  • Identification of Organization
  • Identification of Individual
• Links to other Law Society websites 
• • Law Society of Alberta
  • Law Society of British Columbia
  • Law Society of Manitoba
  • Law Society of Upper Canada