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Highlights

Happy New Year! The month of January is named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces – one looking backwards and one looking forwards. This month we look back and bid farwell to 2021 (some might say happily) while also looking forward to 2022 (some might say with trepidation).
This month’s cover features incoming Law Society President, Lisa Hamilton, Q.C. Her business partner, Stephanie Fabbro and fellow bencher, Brook Greenberg, Q.C. wrote the cover story with such intriguing section titles as “Lisa Pizza”, “Celery” and “Sweet Badger”. Entre Nous, meanwhile, starts things off with chips up the nose, a naked dancing John Cleese, and a deep dive into freedom of expression recently considered by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Ward case.
Gib van Ert and Laura Abrioux have written an argument proposing a joint audit of existing B.C. laws to make them consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The use and abuse of certificates of pending litigation are considered by Dan Parlow. Meanwhile Bill McNally, Mike Tucker and Barb Cotton ask whether the Evidence Amendment Act, 2020 is constitutional and Edward Wong cautions would-be purchasers about delays in pre-sale condominium developments.
These substantive articles are followed by a tour-de-force from the Honourable Judge Roger F. Cutler who imagines a cross-examination of Bob Dylan where Dylan answers questions only using lyrics he’s written over the last 60 years.
We have been questioned as to why Michael Welsh, Q.C.’s wine column appears in our magazine before the Attorney General’s page. This is because if you are reading the magazine sequentially, you are most likely thirsty by then, and sometimes the Attorney General’s page requires just that little extra nudge. This month, Michael examines the flavour wheel for wine. As it turns out, there is no Attorney General’s page in this issue, so your buzz will have to suffice for articles from the BC Law Institute, Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, CLEBC News, the Justice Education Society and news from the faculties at UVic and Allard School of Law.
As usual, we remember those departed, and those (or the one) appointed and we are thankful for letters and grumbles whether we agree with them or not. As stated in Entre Nous “Being exposed to ideas that are not our own is the prize for living in a pluralistic society.” Enjoy the exploration of S’Gang Gwayy Llanagaay with David Roberts, Q.C. in Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea and finally, dodge and weave your way through the boxing references in Bench & Bar. This issue is a knock out!