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VOL. 79 PART 6 NOVEMBER 2021
merly with McLean & Armstrong. Thomas Moggan moves from O’Neill
Law (a member of Northwest Law Group) to Norton Rose Fulbright.
Marichelle Defensor-Jiloca joins Lawson Lundell from Michael, Evrensel
& Pawar. Gib van Ert, formerly the principal of Gib van Ert Law, has joined
forces with Brent B. Olthuis, formerly with Hunter Litigation Chambers, to
form Olthuis van Ert. Cole Rodocker is now with Hamilton Duncan, having
left Lawson Lundell. In news from the Island, the Victoria law firm of Clay
& Company has wound down after 100 years in existence. Moving from
there, Margaret A. Sasges, Q.C., and Chanelle C. Gilbert start a new firm,
Camas Law, which will focus on estate law. Stephen P.E. Curran moves
from McCarthy Tétrault to Lakes Whyte in North Vancouver.
Clare M.F. Jennings, Crown counsel in Victoria, began her stint as the
CBABC president for 2021/22 in September. She takes over from Jennifer
J.L. Brun, the first CBABC president to serve their term entirely during a
pandemic. Clare appears on the cover of this issue.
In case it is ever of assistance, judicial notice may be taken of the fact that
automobiles were in use in and around 1940 in the Victoria area: Grant v.
Lowres, 2016 BCSC 1654.
In other judicial notice news, it is fair game for a court to accept without evidence
that there are dozens of marinas in British Columbia of a goodly size
with a single access road: McDonell v. Lambourn Holdings Ltd., 1977 CanLII
385 (B.C.S.C.).
Kory Wilson was appointed to a special advisory committee to the Board of
Education for School District No. 57 (Prince George) for a term ending
March 31, 2022.
The seven days around the winter solstice are often referred to as “halcyon”,
denoting a period of calm from winter storms so that kingfishers can
breed. Greek myth credibly reports that Aeolus, a god with power over the
wind, refrained from causing any storms and calmed the seas at this time
of year so his grieving daughter, Alycone, who had been transformed into a
kingfisher after hurling herself into the ocean upon the death of her husband,
could make her nest on the beach.
Spencer Elden, who appeared swimming underwater as a four-month-old
baby grasping at a dollar bill on the cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind,
is suing the band for alleged sexual exploitation. The California law-