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THE
VOL. 80 PART 1 JANUARY 2022
Entre Nous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
On the Front Cover: Lisa J. Hamilton, Q.C.
By Stephanie Fabbro and Brook Greenberg, Q.C. . . . . . . . . 15
Ensuring Consistency with the United Nations Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Need for a Joint
Audit of Existing Laws
By Gib van Ert and Laura Abrioux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Use and Abuse of Certificates of Pending Litigation
By Dan Parlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Is the New Law Relating to Expert Witnesses Unconstitutional?
A Further Constitutional Challenge to the Evidence
Amendment Act, 2020
By Bill McNally, Mike Tucker and Barb Cotton . . . . . . . . . 41
A Matter of Time: Delays in Pre-Sale Condo Developments . .
By Edward G. Wong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Free Me
By the Honourable Judge Roger F. Cutler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The Wine Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
News from the BC Law Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
News from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
News from CLEBC News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
News from Justice Education Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Announcing the 2022 Advocate Short Fiction Competition . . . 89
Peter A. Allard School of Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
UVic Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Court Notices and Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Nos Disparus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
New Judge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Grumble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
From Our Back Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Bench and Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
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