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As community and legal research associates for the Supporting Inclusive Resource Development (SIRD) in East Africa project, we supported activities of the project for one month in Kwale County, Kenya. SIRD is a Global Affairs Canada-funded project implemented by the CBA, in partnership with several East African law societies.

The 32 participants in the Young Lawyers International Program are spread far and wide, but they are keeping well connected with the world through their Public Engagement page.

We arrived in Uganda on November 16 to volunteer with the Uganda Law Society (ULS) as Community Research Associates through the Supporting Inclusive Resource Development in East Africa (SIRD) project.

The order making powers in the new federal Access to information Act and the challenges of dealing with a growing volume of requests emerged as themes during the annual Commissioners’ roundtable at the CBA Access to Information and Privacy Law Symposium in Ottawa on October 18.

The CBA is collaborating with the Indigenous Reconciliation Group (IRG) to gather input on our response to the Truth and Reconciliation calls to action.

Representatives from Jamaican civil society converged in the heart of downtown Kingston on October 9, 2019 for a full day workshop to discuss the barriers that persons living with disabilities have in getting access to justice.

Just as Canadians make preparations for winter well ahead of time, the CBA is preparing for its 2020 Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, February 19.

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The centuries-old tradition of gowning in court is overdue for a modernization. The national Women Lawyers Forum Section is working with the branches to write to various courts across the country, encouraging them to adopt more inclusive gowning policies.

The Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, which affirms Indigenous peoples' inherent right to exercise jurisdiction over child and family services, will come into force on January 1, 2020. In its analysis of what was then Bill C-92, the CBA commended the intent of the proposed legislation, but urged that the bill include a more explicit commitment of federal funding to ensure it achieves its objectives.