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Annual Report

Annual Report 2022-2023

  • July 17, 2023

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

Social Justice

Minutes, Section Paper, Archived Recording

What's new in Drug Policy in BC?

  • March 20, 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.

Social Justice

Minutes, Section Paper, Archived Recording

Justice for Asylum Seekers: Panel Discussion on the STCA Constitutional Challenge

  • November 02, 2022

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.

Immigration Law, Social Justice

Annual Report

Annual Report 2021-2022

  • July 21, 2022

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

Social Justice

Minutes

Human Rights & Workplace Sexual Harassment: Case Updates

  • February 15, 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.

Human Rights Law, Social Justice

Minutes, Archived Recording

Effective & Compassionate Drug Policy

  • February 18, 2021

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).

Social Justice

Minutes, Archived Recording

Police Accountability

  • November 12, 2020

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.

Social Justice

Annual Report

Annual Report 2019/2020

  • August 11, 2020

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

Social Justice

Minutes, Archived Recording

Civil, Human, Housing & Prisoner Rights In the Time of COVID-19

  • June 25, 2020

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.

Human Rights Law, Social Justice