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The Honourable Lance Finch, Q.C., O.B.C., presides over the January
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this late jurist starting on page 13.
THE
VOL. 79 PART 1 JANUARY 2021
Entre Nous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
On the Front Cover: The Honourable Lance Finch, Q.C., O.B.C.
By Timothy Outerbridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The Harsh Realities of Access to Justice Issues
By Francis Lamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Dr. Bonnie Henry’s Crisis Communications Master Class
By James Hoggan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Immigration: A Personal Story and a Moral Query
By Nazeer Mitha, Q.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
The Wine Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
News from BC Law Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
News from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
LAP Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Announcing the 2021 Advocate Short Fiction Competition . . . 73
Peter A. Allard School of Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
UVic Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Nos Disparus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
New Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
New Books and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
From Our Back Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Bench and Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
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