News

Browse our news listing for top CBA news stories and messages to our members.

Lawyers on boards

  • August 12, 2016

“How many of you sit on boards now?” asks Rick Powers, a lawyer and associate professor from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

The last eight per cent

  • August 12, 2016

Do you finish your conversations when you’re under pressure? You might be surprised.

Justice Minister promises to fill vacancies and build more diverse bench

  • August 12, 2016

Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould acknowledged today the need to fill outstanding federal judicial vacancies. “I am very sensitive to the pressures that courts throughout the country are currently experiencing due to judicial vacancies,” she told opening plenary delegates at the CBA Legal Conference in Ottawa.

A ringing tribute to John

  • August 11, 2016

CBA Council paid tribute to retiring CEO John Hoyles who is stepping down in November after 20 years in charge.

Resolving issues II: More resolutions passed at CBA Council

  • August 11, 2016

The second and third tranches of resolutions at CBA Council meeting in Ottawa on Thursday saw a great deal more discussion, largely because a major resolution, 16-01-A dealt with matters at the heart of the association itself, a proposal to change the CBA’s governance system that itself was the culmination of more than two years’ hard work by the Re-Think steering committee.

Chief Justice calls on feds to fix judicial vacancy crisis

  • August 11, 2016

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, urged the federal government to address the “perpetual crisis of judicial vacancies in Canada” and to “restore funding to the Canadian Judicial Council,” a federal body mandated to improve the quality of judicial service in Canada’s superior courts.