158 THE ADVOCATE
VOL. 80 PART 1 JANUARY 2022
Congratulations to the Queen's counsel.appointees announced on December
3, 2021: Debra Anne Carpentier, Richard Alexander Ross, Robert
Clair Claus, Rajinder Singh Bhalla, Mary Margaret Terresa MacKinnon,
Richard (Craig) Allen Neville, Robert (Bob) Jan D'Eith, Kim Jakeman,
Graeme Keirstead, Gregory Arthur Petrisor, Barbara Lee Cromarty,
Karen Evelyn Jamieson, Kevin Douglas Loo, Marie Potvin, Scott Lorne
Booth, Andrew Ian Nathanson, Elizabeth June Rowbotham, Jonathan
Noel Eades, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, Thomas Michael Arbogast,
Geoffrey William White, Martha Rans, Lesley Ann Ruzicka, Karey Marlane
Brooks, Andrea Margaret Hilland, John McInnes Rice, Leah
Bernadette Marie Fontaine, Maegen McCallum Giltrow, Alison Maia
Latimer and Jennifer Jane Lee Brun.
“Saved by the bell” means “to save or spare someone from difficulty or misfortune
by some intervention at the very last moment” and is an “allusion
to the bell that ends the round in a boxing match saving a boxer from being
counted out”: <idioms.thefreedictionary.com/saved+by+the+bell>.
In Coupar v. Coupar, 1997 CanLII 3206, which involved a family law dispute,
Boyle J. of the B.C. Supreme Court observed: “The Supreme Court in Moge
v. Moge, 1992 3 SCR 813, after considering the consequential approach to
the division of property on breakdown of a marriage, as an afterthought
added what the legislation the Divorce Act requires: ‘This change, of course,
(the commas are worth noting) does not signify that ‘means and needs’ are
to be ignored’ - saved by the bell and by s. 15(5) of the Divorce Act.”
Thought du mois:
To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
—Constantine “Cus” D’Amato, (1908–1985),
American boxing manager and trainer