Professional Issues Committee

Mandate

This standing committee monitors, develops policy and makes recommendations with respect to a CBABC response on legal profession issues arising within British Columbia, including:

• the scope of protection of solicitor client privilege in British Columbia;
• the regulation of the legal profession;
• the licensing of alternative legal service providers.

Clare Jennings (she/her)

Chair

Crown Counsel-Victoria

Victoria  BC 

Mylene C. de Guzman

Board Liaison

De Guzman Law Centre

Port Moody  BC 

Bijan Ahmadian

Member

Wiebe Wittmann Robertson LLP

Vancouver  BC 

Erika Decker Brimacombe

Member

The University of British Columbia

Vancouver  BC 

Brandon D. Hastings

Member

Cassady & Company

New Westminster  BC 

Graeme V.R. Keirstead, QC

Member

College of Physicians & Surgeons of BC

Vancouver  BC 

Eric Charles Herve Ledding

Member

Pushor Mitchell LLP

Kelowna  BC 

Allen A. Soltan

Member

DLA Piper (Canada) LLP

Vancouver  BC 

Andrew Tang

Member

Harper Grey LLP

Vancouver  BC 

Ann J. Tuck

Member

Vancity Group

Vancouver  BC 

Chelsea D. Wilson

Member

Ramsay Lampman Rhodes

Nanaimo  BC 

Yasmeen Jaafar

Staff Liaison

Canadian Bar Association - BC Branch

Vancouver  BC 

Kerry L. Simmons, K.C.

Staff Liaison

Canadian Bar Association - BC Branch

Vancouver  BC