December

The Pitch: Where startups state their case is a partnership between The Canadian Bar Association and LegalX, to find and showcase the next great legal innovation in Canada.

Join us at the CBA Legal Conference to hone the three most vital dimensions of your career: the profession, the practice and the person.

Ms. Savoie is a staff lawyer with the Legal Services Board in the Northwest Territories at their Community Legal Aid Clinic in Yellowknife.

Queen’s University third year law school student, Alex Bogach, is the winner of the annual Canadian Bar Association Real Property Law Section Essay Competition

Canada joins the US, Britain and three other countries in setting up the International Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre to crack down on global corruption.

Kim Jakeman, Chair of the CBA End of Life Working Group, appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs to discuss the changes to Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal code and to make related amendments to others Acts (medical assistance in dying).

The Supreme Court of Canada in World Bank Group v. Wallace upheld archival and personal immunities of the World Bank Group, and its anti-corruption investigators. The decision acknowledges the importance of ongoing efforts in the global fight against corruption.

An update on current initiatives

“The Honour of the Crown” is the theme of the Canadian Bar Association’s Aboriginal Law Conference taking place in Ottawa, May 5-6. Speakers at the event include author John Ralston Saul; Claudette Commanda of the First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres; Justice Harry Slade, chair of the Specific Claims Tribunal; Bob Rae of Othuis Kleer Townshend; and the Chief Justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin.

The Intellectual Property Section and the Construction Law Section have announced winners for their 2016 prizes – both students at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law.