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ON THE FRONT COVER
Clare Jennings is the new president of the CBABC. Lorne Phipps
profiles her and her various stints in Smithers, Burnaby, Terrace,
Regina, Ghana and Germany starting at page 819.
THE
VOL. 79 PART 6 NOVEMBER 2021
Entre Nous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809
On the Front Cover: Clare Jennings
By Lorne Phipps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Proposed Best Practices in the Preparation of Application
Records for a Summary Trial in the Supreme Court of
British Columbia
By the Honorable Justice Geoffrey Gomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
Justice Delayed? A Quantitative Assessment of Trends in
Length of Hearing, Length of Written Judgment and Time
to Judgment – British Columbia, 1970 to 2015
By Mathew P. Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831
Ethical Mediation
By M. Ali Lakhani, Q.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849
The Wine Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861
News from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869
LAP Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875
A View from the Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881
Announcing the 2022 Advocate Short Fiction Competition . . . 887
Peter A. Allard School of Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 889
TRU Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895
The Attorney General’s Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897
Nos Disparus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 901
New Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921
New Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 937
Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939
Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941
Bench and Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 959
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