Hi guys,
Even if Nova Scotia already evaluated your application, the final say still rely in VO-Sydney because they are the one who will do checking and everything, I guess VO-Sydney was not satisfied about the justification made by your lawyer even if it was ok with Nova Scotia. Anyway, you can still ask your lawyer to sort it out and hope will be ok as your are almost in the final stage of your application.
For information to all, once your application status changed to reviewed and started processing, after 2 weeks I got the MR via post.
Hope all goes well in our application.