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Speech At The Community Reception For Judges Of The Supreme Court Of Canada

  • November 26, 2019
  • Alain Laurencelle

I am very happy to stand before you today to say a few words about access to justice in French in Manitoba. I’m speaking to you as president of the Association des juristes d’expression française du Manitoba, an organization of roughly a hundred people working in the legal field and interested in law in French.

French Speaking Lawyers

Rose des vents : le sens réel de l’égalité

  • July 01, 2015
  • French-Speaking Members Conference

Conference members prepared this article on the April, 2015 Supreme Court of Canada in Rose-des-vents v British Columbia, which they say is fundamental for understanding the scope of constitutional rights awarded to linguistic minorities surrounding education.

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Your language rights are just one click away

  • August 16, 2013
  • Geneviève Boudreau

For more than three years, the Language Rights Support Program (LRSP) has been developing various tools to promote constitutional language rights in Canada. The LRSP recently launched a new portal, the Information Hub on Language Rights…

French Speaking Lawyers

French at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law

  • August 16, 2013
  • Gerald Heckman

In 2011, the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, Robson Hall, launched a project aiming for the progressive and systematic integration of opportunities as part of its undergraduate law program, which made it possible for…

French Speaking Lawyers

35 Years … 1,000 Graduates

  • August 16, 2013
  • Odette Snow, Q.C.

In September 1978, the Université de Moncton Faculty of Law welcomed its first students. This was the fruition of a lengthy debate on the advisability of creating a law faculty to serve Francophones in a province with a population of barely 750,000…

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