March

Robert Brun, Q.C. of Vancouver is the CBA’s new Second Vice-President-elect. CBA President Kevin Carroll, Q.C. made the announcement on March 19 following the vote by CBA Council.

New rules mandate firms to declare whether they, or an affiliate, are under charge or have been convicted under Canada’s anti-corruption laws during the past five years.

Bill S-14 was introduced in the Senate on February 5, 2013, and received Royal Assent on June 19, 2013.

CBA-ACT is proud to sponsor and provide for download Global Corruption: Law, Theory and Practice, the first course book of its kind on anti-corruption.

Join us at the Westin Calgary in Calgary, April 3-5, 2016 for our National Conference, the largest gathering of in-house counsel in Canada.

CBA News | July 2017

On June 1, 2015, the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act entered into force.

The Canadian Bar Association’s Fellowship Committee has selected Léa Brière-Godbout as the 2020-2021 recipient of the Viscount Bennett Fellowship to assist her in her graduate legal studies.

Protests against heavy handed policing have taken centre stage globally in recent weeks, forcing difficult conversations about the disproportionate use of force by police against ethnic minorities. The calls for reform are louder and closer to home than many might have originally thought. Yet the prevalence of police brutality in developing countries is surging for altogether different reasons.