News

Browse our news listing for top CBA news stories and messages to our members.

Getting to know all about you

  • November 08, 2017

By now all members will have had the opportunity to respond to one of two surveys done by Nanos Research since July to help the CBA better understand what its members need and want from the Association.

Call for nominations – Founders’ Award

  • November 08, 2017

The CBA Immigration Law Section is accepting nominations for its Founders’ Award. This award recognizes an exceptional law student or junior lawyer and a future leader of our Section. The successful candidate will be recognized at our National Immigration Law Conference in April 2018.

Vietnam Ministry of Justice study mission to Ottawa

  • November 08, 2017

CBA International Initiatives played host in September to a delegation from the Vietnam Ministry of Justice, part of the CBA’s National Legislative Development project, which supports the implementation of a legislative reform taking place in Vietnam.

Court Challenges Program Expert Panels – Opportunity

  • November 02, 2017

The Department of Canadian Heritage is now seeking applications from persons willing to serve as members of one of the two independent expert panels for the CCP – one for official language rights and one for human rights.

CBA on regulatory modernization for air transportation

  • October 13, 2017

The CBA Air and Space Law Section sent a submission on Regulatory Modernization for Air Transportation to the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). The submission was prepared in response to the CTA’s Discussion Paper on Modernizing Regulation for Air Transport.

CBA intervention on common interest privilege

  • October 12, 2017

The CBA intervened in Iggillis Holdings Inc. v Canada (National Revenue) at the Federal Court of Appeal in Edmonton. Mark Tonkovich, Jacques Bernier, and Stephanie Dewey of Baker McKenzie appeared for the CBA in this matter of common interest privilege.