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CBA News | December 2016

The CBA National office will be closed from Friday, December 23 through Monday, January 2. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 3.

The CBA has written to the federal Minister of Justice to express its unqualified support for a plan to modernize the technology and create a fully electronic-based system for the Federal Court, Tax Court and Federal Court of Appeal.

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.