Minutes and Resources

This report summarizes the activities of the Social Justice Section for the year 2022-2023.

This meeting was held at 5:15 PM on Zoom in Vancouver, British Columbia. Guest speakers were Caitlin Shane, Pivot Legal Society, Sarah Runyon, Marion and Runyon Company and Kali Sedgemore, Peer Outreach Worker at ARYS, VCH, and PHS.

This meeting was held at 12:00 PM via Zoom. Guest speakers were Maureen Silcoff, Silcoff Shacter, co-counsel for the intervenor Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers; Efrat Arbel, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, co-counsel for the intervenor Canadian Civil Liberties Association; and Ga Grant, Staff Litigation Counsel, BC Civil Liberties Association, co-counsel for the intervenor BC Civil Liberties Association.

This report summarizes the activities of the Social Justice Section for the year 2021-2022.

This meeting was held at 12:30 PM via Zoom Webinar in Vancouver, British Columbia. Guest speakers were Aleem Bharmal, Q.C., Lawyer, Human Rights Clinic, Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS), Jonathan Blair, Lawyer, Community Law Program, CLAS, Emily Zarychta, Legal Advocate, Human Rights Clinic, CLAS, and Bethany Hastie, Assistant Professor, Peter Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia.

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This meeting was held at 05:30 PM via Zoom. Guest speakers were Garth Mullins (he/him), Kali Sedgemore (they/them) and Caitlin Shane (she/her).

This meeting was held at 5:00 PM via Zoom. Guest speaker was Meenakshi Mannoe, Criminalization and Policing Campaigner at Pivot Legal Society, Amber Prince, Staff Lawyer at Atira Women's Resource Societym and Carly Teillet, Community Lawyer with the BC Civil Liberties Association.

This report summarizes the activity for the Social Justice Section for the 2019-2020 Term.

This meeting was held at 4:30 PM via Zoom. Guest speakers were Meghan McDermott, Policy Lawyer, BC Civil Liberties Association, Laura Track, Director of Education & Human Rights Lawyer, BC Human Rights Clinic, Community Legal Assistance Society, Danielle Sabelli, Housing Lawyer, Community Law Program, Community Legal Assistance Society, and Emilie Coyle, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies.