August

The first tranche of resolutions up for debate at the Council meeting in Ottawa on Thursday came and went smoothly as a hot knife through butter – no debate, no objections, no amendments.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Beverley McLachlin, urged the federal government to address the “perpetual crisis of judicial vacancies in Canada” and to “restore funding to the Canadian Judicial Council,” a federal body mandated to improve the quality of judicial service in Canada’s superior courts.

Daphne Dumont of Prince Edward Island is the recipient of this year’s Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) 2016 President’s Award. The award recognizes Ms. Dumont’s significant contribution to the CBA, women’s issues and her community.

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CBA Urges Federal Government to Honour Regional Representation in Filling SCC Vacancies

The Foundation for Legal Research has awarded the 2016 Walter Owen Book Prize to Pierre-Claude Lafond, professor at Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law, for his book, Droit de la protection du consommateur : théorie et pratique, published in 2015 by Éditions Yvon Blais.

The CBA 2016 President’s Award is being presented to Daphne Dumont Q.C., a lawyer from Prince Edward Island who has been active in the CBA, women’s issues and her community.

Five early-stage legal technology startups will compete at the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) 2016 Canadian Legal Conference in Ottawa on Aug. 12 for a residency with LegalX at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto and the attention of investors.