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Antique scales are simply office decoration for lawyer James DaCosta, but they are likely to be regarded as very real sales of justice by his visitors. DaCosta, 46, becomes top enforcement officer for the Ontario Securities Commission in September - the man in charge of keeping Bay Streeters in line. He's been a specialist in mining and securities law for many years.
Antique scales are simply office decoration for lawyer James DaCosta, but they are likely to be regarded as very real sales of justice by his visitors. DaCosta, 46, becomes top enforcement officer for the Ontario Securities Commission in September - the man in charge of keeping Bay Streeters in line. He's been a specialist in mining and securities law for many years.

Antique scales are simply office decoration for lawyer James DaCosta, but they are likely to be regarded as very real sales of justice by his visitors. DaCosta, 46, becomes top enforcement officer for the Ontario Securities Commission in September - the man in charge of keeping Bay Streeters in line. He's been a specialist in mining and securities law for many years.

Date7/29/1975
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Legal specialist in stock market legislation, James Baillie, new head of the Ontario Securities Commission, says he thinks the less regulations, the better
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As the chief of Merrill Lynch Royal Securities Ltd
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Ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening yesterday of new Canadian Depository for Securities moves Canada closer to time when stocks could be trade(...)
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