Current Issue: November 2020

Next Issue: January 2021

Highlights

The November issue features the multi-tasking Jennifer Brun, the new president of the CBABC and the first of the two people we know of with the initials “J.B.” to attain presidential office. Jennifer is the subject of the cover story starting at page 813 of this issue.
Also in the November issue are Entre Nous’ take on the plight and prospects of the Law Courts Inn, Julia Lockhart’s analysis of the challenges of parenting and lawyering in the COVID-19 era, Part 2 of Heather Kulyk McDonald’s intriguing look at telephone hearings and the future of Canadian justice, Tom Arbogast’s application to the modern era of G. Arthur Martin’s 1970 address on the role and responsibility of the defence advocate, and insight (from the team of Bill McNally, Mike Tucker and Barb Cotton) into a potential constitutional challenge to new restrictions on expert witnesses in motor vehicle cases.
But wait, that’s not all! Read as well about the important work of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, the VBA and BCLI; the future National Centre for Indigenous Laws at UVic; the intrepid TRU community legal clinic; faculty changes at Allard Law; gratitude from the AG for the work of the judiciary; mentoring tips from the Lawyers Assistance Program; ensuring the purpose behind donations of land is respected (“Letters to the Editor”); and various passages and celebrations.
And have some fun with “Grumbles” about animal classifications and boats, stories of quarantine flags (“Letters to the Editor”), how to bluff through references to precedent (“From Our Back Pages”), the history of the Canada-U.S. border at Point Roberts (“Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea”), tales of Okanagan wine (the “Wine Column”) and our latest tribute to Beethoven and other composers (“Bench and Bar”).
It’s a great issue! Cue Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.