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April 2018
This month’s spotlight is on longtime CLEBC contributor Dick Chan of Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers.

When Canadian law treats corporations like people, it’s easy to believe natural features like rivers or mountains deserve similar rights, says a UVic legal scholar. (Victoria Times-Colonist)

The CLEBC Truth and Reconciliation Task Force has created an Action Plan to guide CLEBC’s implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action in the area of legal education. Check out some of our initiatives here.

CityTV | Breakfast Television (Originally aired: November 27, 2017) The Law Society of B.C. hosts a truth and reconciliation symposium to speak with lawyers and members of Indigenous communities about …

March 2018
This month’s spotlight is on longtime CLEBC contributor Tom Anderson, KC. Tom is one of the original editorial board members of our Family Law Agreements – Annotated Precedents.

CLEBC’s Human Rights Law Conference will be held in Vancouver on November 29–30, 2018. We invite you to submit an outline of the paper you would like to present at the conference.

CLEBC is excited to launch our newly refreshed website and CLE Online platform.

In February 2013, the Honourable Frank Iacobucci, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, called the lack of representation of First Nations peoples on juries a problem “of serious proportions” and said the justice system “as applied to First Nations peoples, particularly in the North, is quite frankly in a crisis.”

February 2018
This month’s spotlight is on CLEBC contributor Kim Karras, longtime presenter, faculty member, and course material author for CLEBC’s wills and estates courses.

January 2018
This month’s spotlight is on longtime CLEBC volunteer Rose A. Keith of Rose Keith Law Corporation, who is an editorial board member of CLEBC’s Civil Jury Instructions publication.