Press Releases & Statements

Statement from the President of the Canadian Bar Association, René Basque on court delays and the effects of the Jordan decision.

On March 8, International Women’s Day, the CBA National Women Lawyers Forum will launch Not Just a Bystander, a free podcast that grew out of their 2015 campaign about sexual harassment in the workplace.

The CBA is calling for Ottawa to speed up the hiring of judges to address a shortage that is contributing to an acute access to justice problem in Canada.

Cheryl Farrow has been named Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Bar Association, a role she assumed on Nov. 7.

The CBA greets today’s announcement of the nomination of Justice Malcolm Rowe of the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

René J. Basque, Q.C., a partner in the Moncton law firm Actus Law Droit, becomes president of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) at the close of the 2016 CBA Legal Conference in Ottawa on August 14.

Stephen Rotstein of Toronto has been named Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s (CBA) Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) for 2016-2017, a post he takes over from Frédéric Pérodeau of Montreal on August 12, 2016.

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.