Grants Approved

Continuing Programs and Projects
The Bursary, Scholarship and Fellowship Committee of the Law Foundation of B.C. met on February 23, 2010 and approved funding for one Legal Research Fund project and five graduate fellowships. Chair Mary Mouat is pleased to announce that funding totalling $83,750 was approved.

Funding totalling $15,000 was approved for the following Legal Research Fund project:

• $15,000, University of British Columbia Law Review, Diversity in the Law: Arguments and Perspectives

Funding totalling $68,750 was approved for the five following 2010/2011 Graduate Fellowships:

• 13,750, Erin Murphy Fries
• 13,750, Margaret Hall
• 13,750, Lorne Neudorf
• 13,750, Elin Rebecca / Smith Sigurdson
• 13,750, Jeffrey Yuen

For full details of the programs and projects that received funding, please visit the Law Foundation of B.C. website at www.lawfoundationbc.org.

TD Canada Trust
Law Foundation Chair, Mary Mouat, commends TD Canada Trust for its commitment to paying a competitive rate of return on lawyers’ pooled trust accounts. Once again, recognizing the overall impact of protracted low interest rates on the Law Foundation’s revenues, a new interest rate agreement was recently concluded.

Special thanks go to Chris Knight, Vice President of Business Banking Deposits; Vito Cramarossa, Assistant Vice President of Business Banking Deposits and John Melchiorre, Manager, Business Banking Deposits for the leadership shown in making this agreement possible.

Increased revenues enable the Law Foundation to fund programs that make the justice system accessible to the people of British Columbia. The funded programs include professional legal education, public legal education, law reform, legal research, legal aid and law libraries.

The British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, the Law Society and the Law Foundation encourage lawyers to consider which financial institutions provide the best support to the Law Foundation when deciding where to place their trust accounts.

Diversity Profile
In 2009, the Law Foundation of B.C. updated its Diversity Profile which provides demographic information regarding the population in each region of British Columbia. The Diversity Profile provides information regarding each element of the Law Foundation’s working definition of diversity, as follows:

Diversity includes age, different abilities, socio-economic level, education, ethnicity, language, family, gender, marital/relationship status, race, religion, work experience, geographic size and location, and sexual orientation.

This publication, along with others, is available on our website to download. Please visit www.lawfoundationbc.org and follow the link to the publications section of our website.

This article was published in the April 2010 issue of BarTalk. © 2010 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.