Announcements

Get your tickets now for the 2021 Lawyer Show Online: Cabaret-A-Ganza!

Would you like to help lawyers succeed and ensure a strong legal profession? Do you believe in the CBA BC Branch as a great way to connect lawyers to the people, knowledge and skills they need to practice law? If you would like to be the guiding force behind your CBABC, consider joining the Board of Directors for the 2021-22 year (September to August)

Lobat Sadrehashemi, Senior Counsel and Clinic Lead at the Immigration and Refugee Legal Clinic in Vancouver, is appointed a Judge of the Federal Court. Madam Justice Sadrehashemi replaces Mr. Justice K.M. Boswell, who retired effective January 29, 2021.

"They're playing rugby and we come with a badminton racket."

By Serin Remedios and Jordan Ardanaz – MT+Co.

By: Selina Lee-Andersen

By Nancy Roberts, Jacqueline Code, Lindsay Rauccio, Mary Angela Rowe, Kai Sheffield – Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

“I wish Justices Marchand and Kirchner every success as they take on their new roles. I am confident they will serve the people of British Columbia well as members of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of British Columbia.” —The Hon. David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

The federal government has named the first Indigenous judge to the B.C. Court of Appeal, the province's top court.

The Canadian Bar Association’s BC branch is calling for several changes to the law and its administration as a result of lessons we’ve learned in the pandemic that affect individuals and businesses. Jennifer Brun, the president of the CBABC, joins BIV publisher and editor-in-chief Kirk LaPointe for a conversation on the Agenda for Justice report from the association.