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Spotlight on legal aid benchmarks

  • October 12, 2016

The CBA, in cooperation with the Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada, has developed six aspirational legal aid benchmarks aimed at providing guiding principles to achieve the goal of a national system of public legal assistance. So what comes next?

Statement Against the Immigration Detention of Children

  • October 04, 2016

We urge the government of Canada to immediately cease the immigration detention of unaccompanied minors, children, and families, in order to halt the significant harm to children. Children should neither be detained, nor separated from their parents as a result of the detention of their parents. Community-based alternatives to immigration detention should be implemented immediately to protect the best interests of children and children’s right to liberty and family life.

The CBA comments on the judicial discipline process

  • September 22, 2016

The CBA brought together a team of lawyers with experience in the judicial discipline process and other professional discipline matters, including the chair of the Ethics Committee, to comment on the proposals. Their letter builds on a 2014 submission to the Canadian Judicial Council on the topic.

Solutions Series: Practical tools for everyday problems

  • September 13, 2016

What began as a PD session on dealing with unpleasant people has turned into the Solutions Series, an eight-webinar program offering lawyers practical tools for everyday problems – how to schmooze, how to negotiate successfully, even how to turn off that part of your brain that demands perfectionism in everything you do – and thus keeps you from ever completing a project.

Update on CBA International Initiatives

  • September 13, 2016

From Vietnam to East Africa, from the Young Lawyers International Program to promoting the importance of the rule of law in sustainable development, the CBA International Initiatives is staying very busy.