CLEBC Update
The CLEBC website (www.cle.bc.ca) recently underwent a major update and CLEBC is pleased to announce the enhancement of several features on the site. The most exciting feature is the addition of an online store. This new enhancement allows for easy one stop shopping to meet all your practice needs, including the ability to register for courses, live webcasts, and video repeats, as well as make purchases from a selection of more than 150 course materials and 53 publications. A new search engine allows for easy navigation through the website and visitors can now view a 12 month calendar with links to upcoming courses.

In August, Vancouver will be the host city for the 44th Annual ACLEA Meeting. The Association for Continuing Legal Education is the primary organization for improving the performance of CLE professionals. This year’s conference will attract more than 200 CLE professionals from around the world. CLEBC will be well represented at this summer’s conference. Acting Director of Programs, Rob Seto, is Co-Chairing the event, while Director of Education, Ron Friesen, is presenting “Access and Online: Seeking New Landscape and Having New Eyes,” and Program Lawyer, Meredith Woods, is presenting “Your Customers Have Something to Say: Are you Listening?” The conference takes place from August 2-5, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver.


The Law Foundation of British Columbia
Grants Approved
The Board of Governors of the Law Foundation of B.C. met on March 29, 2008. Chair Dev Dley, QC is pleased to announce that funding totalling $10,471,834 was approved for 17 continuing programs and 51 projects.

Funding totalling $6,335,790 was approved for the following 24 new projects:

LEGAL SERVICES SOCIETY
$1,135,000 Civil Integrated Services Initiative – New Westminster Office
$736,564 Telephone Triage Project

$1,000,000
LEGAL SERVICES SOCIETY/LAW FOUNDATION OF B.C.
Legal Research Fund

B.C. MEDIATOR ROSTER SOCIETY
$600,000 Improving Public Access to Family Mediation Project
$150,000 Phase 2: Technology – Assisted Family Mediation Pilot Project

$541,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY
Junior Lawyer Project

$356,689
B.C. PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE
Poverty Law Enhancement Project

$355,000
CANADIAN LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE
Supreme Court of Canada Project

$310,000
B.C. ASSOCIATION OF SPECIALIZED VICTIM ASSISTANCE AND COUNSELLING PROGRAMS
Analysis and Action on Policy Barriers Facing Women

$300,000
PEOPLE’S LAW SCHOOL SOCIETY
Violence Against Minority Women Project

UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
$292,500 Public Interest Work Placements
$20,000 Religious Diversity and the Rule of Law in Canada
$15,000 Canadian Criminal Jury Instructions
$10,022 Accounting for Facts in Corporate Law

Public Interest Articling Fellowships
$120,000 B.C. LAW INSTITUTE
$120,000 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
$60,000 B.C. CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSOCIATION
$56,900 GREATER VANCOUVER LAW STUDENTS’ LEGAL ADVICE SOCIETY

$50,000
B.C. LAW INSTITUTE
Real Property Law Reform Project

$30,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CHILD RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT
Child Participation in B.C. Family Justice Processes Development Grant

$27,115
PEOPLE’S LAW SCHOOL
Speakers’ Program Pilot Project

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
$20,000 Development Grant-Family Consensual Dispute Resolution
$20,000 Autonomous Motherhood, Changing Family Norms and Law Reform
$11,000 Law Reform and Problem-solving Courts

Funding totalling $27,200 was approved for the following Child Welfare Fund project:

$27,200
B.C. DISPUTE RESOLUTION PRACTICUM SOCIETY
Child Protection Practicum Project Additional Funding

Funding totalling $350,013 was approv-ed for the following 26 Small projects:

$15,000
ABBOTSFORD COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY
Family Justice Education and Support for Fathers Project

$15,000
B.C. COALITION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Transition Magazine: Special Edition on Changes to Part 7 Accident Benefits

$15,000
BCAA TRAFFIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
Legal Education on Dementia and Driving

$15,000
CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION, B.C. BRANCH
Dial-A-Law Digital Audio Access

$15,000
DOGWOOD INITIATIVE
A Community Response to Coastal Liquid Natural Gas

$15,000
DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN’S CENTRE
Legal Information for Hard to House Women

$15,000
GREATER VANCOUVER ALLIANCE FOR ARTS & CULTURE
Legal Education Workshops: Art and the Olympics

$15,000
INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS (ICANN)
7th International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution

$15,000
MPA – MOTIVATION, POWER & ACHIEVEMENT SOCIETY
Legal Information for Mentally Ill from Ethnic Communities

$15,000
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY, B.C. DIVISION
Volunteer Legal Advocacy Program

$15,000
NIDUS PERSONAL PLANNING RESOURCE CENTRE ASSOCIATION
Personal Planning Legislation – Public Legal Education Materials

$15,000
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY RESOURCES
Legal Clinics and Public Legal Education Project

$15,000
P’EGP’IG7IHA COUNCIL
P’egpig7iha Constitution Analysis and Education

$15,000
PENTICTON & DISTRICT MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Seasonal Farm Worker & Immigrant Farm Operator Program

$15,000
ST. PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH
Self-Help Legal Information

$15,000
VERNON WOMEN’S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY
Vernon Legal Assistance Pro Bono Clinic

$15,000
WESTCOAST GENESIS SOCIETY
Legal Education and Advocacy Manual

$15,000
YWCA OF VANCOUVER
Custody, Access, Kids and Courts Resource Brochure Translation

$14,040
ASSOC. DES JURISTES D’EXPRESSION FRANCAISE DE LA B.C.
Journee de droit 2008

$13,500
SUNSHINE COAST COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE
Family Law Workshops

$13,330
WESTERN INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING
Legal Workshops for the Deaf Community in the Okanagan Valley

$12,000
NORTH SHORE WOMEN’S CENTRE
Women’s Legal Clinic Development Project

$8,315
QUESNEL TILLICUM SOCIETY
The Tillicum Law Experience Project

$7,950
COMOX VALLEY TRANSITION SOCIETY
Empowering Women Through Legal Information Assistance & Access

$7,758
LOWER SIMILKAMEEN COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY
Family Law Workshops

$3,120
PRINCE RUPERT UNEMPLOYED CENTRE SOCIETY
Village Outreach

For full details of the programs and projects that received funding, please visit The Law Foundation of British Columbia’s website at www.lawfoundationbc.org.

These articles were published in the June 2008 issue of BarTalk. © 2008 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.