April

The CBA Business Law Section is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Langlois Prize Law Student Essay Contest:

COVID-19, along with gender and race issues dominate the initiatives being funded through the Law for the Future Fund’s 2020 grants.

Tune in to our next After the Pandemic series, where we discuss emerging issues in law in a world transformed. In less than a year, Covid-19 has stirred conversations about the need to update our laws to the realities of the 21st century.  Over the next few months, we will be looking at different areas of law and asking our guests what changes they would like to see in their area of practice to make the law fit for purpose.

All lawyers should be alert to the potential for conflicts of interest when taking on a new client or a new matter for an existing client as a matter of due diligence. Some conflicts are easier to spot than others, however, and identifying them takes a strategic approach.

It’s long been acknowledged that Canada is at a crisis point when it comes to access to justice. And while no lawyer would argue for a less accessible justice system, it’s hard to know where to begin to argue for change.

The resolutions that are debated each year at the CBA’s annual general meeting have a significant role to play by positioning the CBA’s governance, and its stance on issues of importance to the legal community.

The decision about who gets to be a judge in Canada is made, in the end, by politicians. And political decisions, even when they don’t reach the level of blatant and deliberate stacking for ideology, risk having some sort of partisan taint.

We want to make your voice heard! - October 2020 Blast Email

Your voice is needed on pensions and employee benefits law! - October 2020 Blast Email

The Canadian Bar Association is saddened by the passing of The Honourable Robert Wells, St. John’s, NL, at the age of 87.