CBA calls Victims Bill of Rights Act an important step for victims While the CBA calls the Victims Bill of Rights Act (Bill C-32) an important step for victims of crime, it is recommending changes to improve the Bill’s ability to withstand possible constitutional scrutiny, protect prosecutorial independence and ensure that the criminal justice system is in fact able to deliver on any rights promised to victims of crime.
Spotlight on: CBA Re-Think – Strategic Direction At the CBA Mid-Winter meeting in February, Council approved a new Strategic Direction for the CBA, which summarizes our aspirations, values and the foundation on which we’ll build a better association.
Mid-Winter wrap-up Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould brought a message of change and reconciliation in her first address to CBA Council, at the Mid-Winter meeting in Ottawa in February.
An International Development Award for the CBA he Canadian Bar Association International Development Committee and its partner IBM Business Consulting Services are the winners of the 2007 CHF Award for Improvement of Social Infrastructure, a Canadian Award recognizing outstanding work in international cooperation and development.
Viscount Bennett Fellowship will help 2020-21 recipient research equality and define discrimination The Canadian Bar Association’s Fellowship Committee has selected Léa Brière-Godbout as the 2020-2021 recipient of the Viscount Bennett Fellowship to assist her in her graduate legal studies.
CBA’s SIRD Project supports toll-free helpline to report human rights violations in Kenya Protests against heavy handed policing have taken centre stage globally in recent weeks, forcing difficult conversations about the disproportionate use of force by police against ethnic minorities. The calls for reform are louder and closer to home than many might have originally thought. Yet the prevalence of police brutality in developing countries is surging for altogether different reasons.
CBA National: Good things come to those who wait…and wait…and wait… Your new-look CBA National magazine is here! Some hiccups on both the printing and distribution side delayed our official launch, but we’re proud to finally bring you this new magazine created with our members in mind!
NewLaw needs new lawyers – are you up to the challenge? The CBA Legal Futures Initiative has heard it again and again: law school is great at teaching theory, not so great at teaching the practical things lawyers hitting the 21st-century job market need to know. Futures has teamed up with Jordan Furlong to create a tool to help bridge that gap. Read on for a sneak peek at the guide.
CBA-ACT Proud to Sponsor First Anti-Corrupti CBA-ACT is proud to sponsor and provide for download Global Corruption: Law, Theory and Practice, the first course book of its kind on anti-corruption.