BarTalk August 1999
Volume 11, Number 4

Law Courts Education Society Celebrates Anniversary

The Law Courts Education Society of BC will host a 10th Anniversary Celebration on Tuesday, October 19, 1999. The evening event will feature special guest speaker The Honourable Mr. Justice Frank Iacobucci of the Supreme Court of Canada. Tickets for the event, which will take place at the Renaissance Hotel, can be purchased for $100 each. A portion of the ticket will be tax receiptable. Expect to enjoy an elegant meal with members of the judiciary, representatives from the Ministry of the Attorney General, and other members of the legal community.

To purchase tickets, or for more information, contact Jeni Vlahovic at the Law Courts Education Society at 604.660.9870.

Equality Rights in the New Century

The West Coast Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund presents “Transforming Women’s Future: Equality Rights in the New Century” from November 4-7 in Vancouver. This national, law-related forum’s main themes include the social and economic rights of women; revisiting constitutional personhood: a focus on the experience of native women; violence and abuse and the intersection of race and gender. In addition, there will be about forty law-related workshops dealing with strategies, tools, resources and skills, on topics identified in a community survey carried out last year.

Pregs Govender, an ANC Member of the South African National Assembly, will deliver the opening address on the evening of Thursday, November 4, 1999. Ms. Govender has been an activist for most of her life. First a teacher in high schools and university, she moved on to work as a National Education Officer and later, Collective Bargaining and Research Officer for SACTU, the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union, the union with the largest women’s membership in SA. One of her current roles is Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Quality of Life and Status of Women. She has been asked to establish the relationship between the situation of women in Canada and the global struggle for equality rights in her presentation at the forum. For current information, check LEAF’s website (www.westcoastleaf.org); or contact the West Coast LEAF office at 604.684.8772; or by email at wcleaf@dowco.com.

These articles were published in the August 1999 issue of BarTalk and are subject to the copyright by the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association, 2005, all rights reserved.