Current Issue: September

Next Issue: November

Highlights

Wow! Kind of psychedelic, huh? The September 2021 edition features on its cover just a handful of “Advocate Superfans”—students, clerks, associates, partners, librarians, litigators, solicitors, scholars and even retirees. Your editor, D. Michael Bain, Q.C., explains in On the Front Cover this departure from tradition and describes some of the virtues and mysteries of this community-building journal. Entre Nous too is dedicated to thoughts emerging from the exercise of finding out who the Advocate Superfans are.
Deeper into the magazine, Jennifer K. Choi and the Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell consider “The Impact of Vavilov on Appeals of Commercial Arbitration Awards”, while Dirk Van Ommen boasts of being “The Articling Student with the Corner Office”.
Peter Senkpiel, Tom Posyniak and Caitlin Ohama-Darcus jointly (and possibly severally) add some curb appeal by tackling the new Court of Appeal Act and proposed Court of Appeal Rules.
This month’s wine column is handled by stalwarts Paul M. Daykin, Q.C., and Bruno De Vita, Q.C., while Ludmila B. Herbst, Q.C., brings her tour-de-force research skills to “The Cranmer Potlatch: December 1921” in Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea.
Throughout this month’s issue you will meet many more Advocate Superfans sprinkled among faculty news, CLEBC News, BCLI News, A View from the Centre and an update from FACL.
Need to be assured that there is a life after this one? There is. It’s called being appointed to the bench, and as usual we keep track of the newly appointed judges. Meanwhile, the same question asked on a somewhat more philosophical level comes into play when reading Nos Disparus. Bench and Bar, when not dealing with things here on Earth, is rather out of this world, and one or two letters to the editor appear just before the Grumble to beget more Grumbles.
So that’s our swirly colourful spectacle for September 2021. Enjoy!