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Highlights

Our July issue has arrived! We welcome Ngai Pindell to his role as dean of Allard Law, and – whether you are reading this issue at home, at an airport or abroad – we invite you to travel with us through time.
Read about the ghosts of the County Court in an article by a certain judge (the Honourable Justice David Crerar) who continues to haunt the Vancouver Law Courts … no longer in the Cub uniform featured on page 639.
Engage in the cross-issue debate about the use of constructive trusts in the wills and estates context – Joel Nitikman, Q.C., brings us the July view, in response to the May article by Mark Weintraub, Q.C., and Polly Storey.
In a style worthy of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie, Heather Konrad Hill brings us the “Battle of Wills”, which took second place in the 2021 Short Fiction Competition.
Look back with D. Michael Bain, Q.C., at contenders for, and the concept of, the “trial of the century”, in “Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea”.
Sail into the stormy waters of the Spanish Armada in “Bench and Bar” for some new perspectives on a legendary English victory.
Cast your minds back to cat filters and the goats who crashed online meetings (as well as the saboteurs who invented spell check) in Entre Nous.
Consider the history of “Her Majesty’s Counsel” in B.C. in “From Our Back Pages”, and read about the world’s oldest grapevines in “The Wine Column”.
And of course see the rest of our pages for Nos Disparus, new judges, a new master, law reform and much more