STANDING & SPECIAL COMMITTEES
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Coordinates and integrates CBA activities to improve and promote access to justice for the poor and middle class in Canada. The Committee stresses government responsibility for a publicly funded legal aid system as the essential foundation, promotes pro bono service in the legal profession and supports innovative delivery options for legal services.
NATIONAL: Amanda Dodge
AWARDS
Responsible for administration of the Branch Distinguished Service Award and the Branch Community Service Award. Also, promoting the Viscount Bennett Fellowship, the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Law and the Louis St. Laurent Award of Excellence.
BRANCH: John-Paul Ellson
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Branch Representative on the CBA National Board of Directors.
NATIONAL: David Thera
COMMUNICATIONS
Responsible for CBA communications policy, publications and marketing. It oversees CBA public relations and is responsible for the CBA internet home page. It is the publisher of the National and the Canadian Bar Review (and Branch newsletter, BarNotes).
BRANCH: Kaylea Dunn
NATIONAL: Kaylea Dunn
EQUITY
Promotes awareness of equality issues in the profession and ways to eliminate discrimination; develops resources to assist the profession in achieving gender equality; monitors the status of women in the legal profession; and oversees the implementation of the recommendations of related Task Force Reports.
BRANCH: Beth Bilson, Q.C.
ETHICS & PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Initiates a comprehensive update of the CBA's Code of Professional Conduct, and provides opinions or advice on specific issues of legal issues which may arise.
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Responsible for overseeing the CBA international development program and advancing the CBA's international mandate to promote the rule of law in developing democracies and countries in transition throughout the world.
BRANCH: Karen Prisciak, Q.C.
NATIONAL: Anne Wallace, Q.C.
JUDICIAL COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Formulates policy on judicial salaries and pensions.
BRANCH: David Thera
LAW DAY
Promotes and co-ordinates Law Day activities in the provinces and territories.
BRANCH: Charmaine Panko
NATIONAL: Charmaine Panko
LEGAL AID LIAISON
Serves as a forum to monitor developments in legal aid programs across Canada.
LEGISLATION AND LAW REFORM
Co-ordinates CBA submissions to government and Parliament, promotes law reform priorities for the CBA and identifies cases suitable for public intervention.
BRANCH: Vacant
NATIONAL: Tom Irvine
MEMBERSHIP
Developes programs and services aimed at recruiting, retaining and renewing membership in the Association.
BRANCH: Gail Wartman
NATIONAL: Gail Wartman
MID-WINTER MEETING
Responsible for planning the Branch Mid-Winter Meeting.
BRANCH: Neil Robertson, Q.C.
NOMINATING
Responsible for submitting a report setting out the names of those nominated by the Committee for election to positions outlined in By-Law 10(3).
BRANCH: Perry Erhardt, Q.C.
PRO BONO
Promotes and facilitates pro bono service in the legal profession.
BRANCH: Kara-Dawn Jordan
NATIONAL: Kara-Dawn Jordan
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Responsible for the development and production of seminars and conferences on topics of Branch and National or international interest to the legal profession.
BRANCH: Curtis Onishenko
NATIONAL: Joel Hesje, Q.C.
PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
Working toward the introduction, co-ordination and implementation of initiative and activities that enhance the member and public awareness of the positive contributions that lawyers and jurists make to society.
BRANCH: Jenn Pereira
QUEEN'S COUNSEL
BRANCH: Perry Erhardt, Q.C.
RESOLUTIONS, CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS
Receives, considers and reports on resolutions to Council. The Committee is also responsible for the maintenance and enforcement of the Constitution and By-Laws.
BRANCH: Robert Thornton, Q.C.
NATIONAL: Bryan Salte, Q.C. and Peter Bergbusch
SUPREME COURT OF CANADA LIAISON
Serves as a link between the Court and the Bar. Consults with National Sections and SCC counsel on issues that the Court and Bar may raise for review.
ABORIGINAL REPRESENTATIVE
Kathy Hodgson-Smith
BAR JUDICIAL COUNCILS
COURT OF APPEAL OF SASKATCHEWAN: Michelle Ouellette, Q.C. and Tiffany Paulsen, Q.C.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH OF SASKATCHEWAN: Michelle Ouellette, Q.C. and Jenn Pereira
PROVINCIAL COURT OF SASKATCHEWAN: George Green and John Knox
CANADIAN BAR INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Ronald L. Miller, Q.C. and Barry Rossmann, Q.C.
JUDICIARY REPRESENTATIVES
COURT OF APPEAL FOR SASKATCHEWAN: Mr. Justice Maruice Herauf
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH FOR SASKATCHEWAN: Justice Ronald C. Mills
PROVINCIAL COURT OF SASKATCHEWAN: Judge D. Albert Lavoie
PRO BONO LAW SASKATCHEWAN
Michelle Ouellette, Q.C.
PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SASKATCHEWAN
Margot Hurlbert
ROUND TABLE ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Aaron Fox, QC
RULES OF COURT COMMITTEE
Michelle Ouellette, Q.C.
SASKATCHEWAN COURT OF APPEAL CRIMINAL RULES REVISION COMMITTEE
Aaron Fox, Q.C.
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