February

As a follow-up to an appearance earlier this fall, CBA Immigration Law Section Chair Vance Langford, on behalf of the Section, provided language to replace the bad faith marriage section of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations.

A new global commons is open for business. But the law is unclear.

Is your section having conference?

As a change maker, looking towards the future and not the past, you’ll want to join your in-house counsel colleagues at CCCA’s National Conference: Agents of Change. This conference is your opportunity to collaborate with prominent thought leaders and futurists to gain insights on navigating our transforming legal landscape.

The ever-popular Skilled Lawyer Series is coming back in January 2017 with two new streams of webinars offering 12 CPD hours each.

The CBA has played witness to most of the major milestones in Hannah Bernstein’s life and now the time has come for one more: our Director, Communications will be retiring in January. Hannah takes this opportunity, in one of the many communications vehicles she helped to create, to say goodbye.

Doron Gold, a co-author of the CBA’s free online course Mental Health and Wellness in the Legal Profession, is the winner of this year’s CBA Wellness Award.

In November 12 directors and legal officials from Vietnam’s Finance and Justice ministries came to Ottawa and Toronto as part of a study mission. They paid a visit to the CBA to learn about how the Association influences law and policy reform.

Susan Ursel was the CBA representative on the federal advisory board created by the Prime Minister to come up with a shortlist of nominees for the Supreme Court of Canada. She tells us a bit about what that was like.

A year after the CBA Board voted in favour of a new intervention policy – which was officially adopted at the CBA Council meeting in February – everyone seems to be settling in to the new consultation and review process.