Current Issue: March 2023

Next Issue: May 2023

Highlights

Christopher Harvey, Q.C., was the editor of the Advocate from 2008 to 2013. He brought excellence, dedication and a good deal of fun to his term at the helm. His stewardship of this magazine was, however, only one of his many contributions to the law in British Columbia. Having passed away last year due to COVID-19, Chris is remembered on our cover in a tribute by his son, Timothy Harvey, and his best friend of more than 50 years, Gavin Hume, K.C. The cover portrait was painted by the Advocate’s previous cover artist (and Chris Harvey’s wife), Anne-Marie Harvey. It shows Chris in his happiest of places: pulling up prawn traps.

This issue’s Entre Nous tackles the troubling lack of turnout for elections as democracy appears to recede and modern interests (or lack of interests) seem to take over. But not everything is totally bleak: Robert Diab explores the admissibility of surreptitious recordings in criminal trials, Darrell Roberts, K.C., tackles the federal disallowance power, Bruce Woolley, K.C., tells us about the Solicitor’s Legal Opinions Committee, and in a timely manner, David Wotherspoon and Jaclyn Vanstone examine contract law and ask whether time really is of the essence.

Our wine columnist, Michael Welsh, K.C., looks at the new federal recommendations concerning alcohol consumption, and two of British Columbia’s legal institutions (Allard and TRU) provide us with updates from their faculties. It’s not that UVic did not submit something, it’s that your humble editor lost it in the mix. So sorry about that; we will make it up to UVic in an upcoming issue.

Speaking of the deadbeat editor, D. Michael Bain, K.C., dusted off his writing chops to tell us about some very naughty boys in “Legal Anecdotes & Miscellanea”, and he has now been at this so long that he also qualifies as a historical contributor in “From Our Back Pages”, which reminds us of the dearly departed Writ of Summons, which died over a decade ago. The theme for “Bench and Bar” in this issue (thought up by assistant editor and previously closeted jazz afficionado, Ludmila B. Herbst, K.C.) is jazz, presumably because it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!

Count it in!