News

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 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.

Karine McLaren, a law professor from the Université de Moncton, and Scott Franks, an associate with Olthui Kleer Townshend LLP in Toronto, are the joint recipients of this year’s Viscount Bennett Award.

Jason Cooke, a partner with Burchells LLP in Halifax, is the Board member from Nova Scotia.

Most of us are conscious of the image we present when we travel, making sure our faces and our clothes are clean and tidy. If you’re a lawyer crossing the border with an electronic device that might have privileged client information on it, don’t forget to give that a scrub as well.

Protecting and supporting judicial independence is one of the CBA’s most important mandates. We see the independence of the judicial branch as fundamental to our entire system of law and law-making.

Language is continually evolving, and never more so than when it comes to describing sex and gender in all its beautiful permutations.

The Immigration Law Section has chosen this year’s award recipients.

The Psychology Law Evidence Database, created to address the need for high-quality research relevant to the field of psychology and the law, is up and running.

Take notice that the 2019 Annual General and Special Meeting of The Canadian Bar Insurance Association (CBIA) shall be held in conjunction with CBIA’s May Board Meeting at the Shangri-La Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, May 24, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. PDT, in the Barnard & Library room