Jeffrey Rath represents the Alberta Prosperity Project and was reprimanded on Friday for his role in a near-decade old legal case

A leader of the Alberta separatist movement has been reprimanded by the Law Society of Alberta for a second time in four months, after he admitted to twice breaching professional standards.

Foothills-based lawyer Jeffrey Rath was issued the reprimand during a virtual hearing Friday morning along with an order to pay $800 in costs within 30 days.

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Those actions were related to a pair of stay applications filed by Rath along with another lawyer, Mark Freeman, in 2016 and 2017 as part of a legal action filed by their then-client the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation against the federal and provincial governments.

In a 2022 ruling, Alberta Court of K

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