April

Terrance S. Carter is the winner of this year’s Jane Burke-Robertson Award of Excellence in Charity and Not-for-Profit Law.

Congratulations to Shadi Varkiani, who has been named winner of this year’s Atrium essay contest presented by the Construction and Infrastructure Law Section. Read Shadi’s winning essay, Construction Law: A Comparison of Adjudication Frameworks in the UK and Ontario here (need link once posted) available in English only.

Congratulations! Kaitlin Brennan of the University of Ottawa is the winner of the 2019 CBA Real Property Law Student Essay Competition for her paper titled, Damages vs. Specific Performance: Land Contracts (paper only available in English).

We have two new CBA Advantage member offers to tell you about this month:

Municipal Law Blast Email - June 2019

Business Law Section Blast Email - June 2019

The Canadian Bar Association welcomes the report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and expresses its gratitude for the contributions of the survivors and families.

The Competition Law Section has been having a busy spring. For a quick update on what it’s been doing, and what’s coming up, please read on.

A number of recent CBA submissions deal with topics of importance to the business and corporate sector. Here’s a sampling of submissions and the CBA Influence blogs that accompanied them.

The Section has some wonderful PD programs coming up and great opportunities to get involved.