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Speech from our Incoming President

  • August 18, 2017

Incoming President Kerry Simmons outlines her priorities for the next year in her speech to the Annual Meeting in Montreal. If you weren’t able to be there, or participate from a hub, read on to see what she has in store for 2017-18.

Caitlin Pakosh winner of 2017 Walter Owen Book Prize

  • August 18, 2017

The Foundation for Legal Research has awarded the 2017 Walter Owen Book Prize to Caitlin Pakosh, senior staff lawyer at Innocence Canada, for the book The Lawyer’s Guide to the Forensic Sciences, published in 2016 by Irwin Law.

Media Advisory – Canadian Bar Association Annual Meeting 2017

  • August 15, 2017

The Canadian Bar Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting takes place in Montreal on August 17. Resolutions that will be debated and voted on include new CBA bylaws and regulations, the need for a national commissioner for children and youth, and a denunciation of the violence against gay and bisexual men in Chechnya.

5 New Submissions to Government

  • August 10, 2017

The CBA’s Legislation & Law Reform team has been busy working with our National Sections to send a number of submissions to government.

Winner of CBA 2017 Law School Essay Contest

  • August 04, 2017

Niall Rand, a graduate law student at the UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law, is the winner of the 2017 Canadian Bar Association (CBA) National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section Law School Essay Contest Gowling WLG - David Estrin Prize.

Winner of the 2017 Paul Smith Memorial Award

  • August 03, 2017

The CBA Administrative Law Section is pleased to announce that Mark Mancini is the winner of the 2017 Paul Smith Memorial Award for his paper titled “Just a Pillowfight?: Standard of Review And Expertise in Constitutional Law."