February

Benny Chan, a student at McGill University Faculty of Law, has won the 2016 Paul Smith Memorial Award.

Amélie Gravel , who began her law studies at the Université de Québec à Montréal in January, won the Sword and Scale award from the Military Law Section for her paper Victims of military infractions : Victims like any other.

The CBA believes that Canadians deserve to have confidence that candidates considered for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada have the highest qualifications and are representative of society as a whole, taking into account language, gender and knowledge of Indigenous legal systems.

The CBA Constitutional and Human Rights Law Section would like to congratulate the Section’s BC Branch Co-Chair, Aleem Bharmal

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould headline the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) 2016 legal conference, Aug. 11-14 in Ottawa.

The Canadian Judges’ Forum is now accepting nominations for the positions of Secretary-Treasurer and two Executive Members for the term September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017.

The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, will speak at the Opening Plenary of the CBA Legal Conference on August 12th, 2016

Annual conference in Montreal August 18-20

Spotlight on: The Pitch

A look ahead to CBA professional development programs.