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a means of describing the very model of a modern major-general and
while the Renaissance man may have been as comfortable discussing
Copernicus as Catalan, not every modern magistrate is a Renaissance
man. Yet how many judges would refuse to enter into a qualification voirdire
for an expert witness on DNA issues simply because, hypothetically
of course, they only passed grade ten science by promising the teacher
not to enrol in grade eleven science? None of us. So it must be with interpreters.
Where there is a dispute between the parties over a proposed
interpreter’s qualifications it is our obligation, however reluctantly, to go
once more into the breach. Emphasis in original.
In M.C. Machinery Systems, Inc. v. Maher Terminals, Inc., A-117-98 (2000), the
Supreme Court of New Jersey noted that its members “hesitate to dip our
toes into the waters of admiralty law. Fortunately, we need not deal here
with such quaint notions as that a ship is a person … or that when cargo and
vessel come together, they are married at transport … These subtleties have
appealed to ones such as Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan who described this
law as the monarch of the sea … And rightly so. The law of the sea, with
other institutions of antiquity, helped to shape the civilizations with which
we are most familiar. Its unifying principles are as necessary to the world
of commerce today as then.”
Paul A.H. Barnett, Sasha Hobbs, Dr. Janis E. Lindsay and Qi (Guangbin)
Yan were all reappointed as lay benchers of the Law Society effective January
1, 2022.
Lisa J. Southern was appointed as the City of Vancouver’s first Integrity
Commissioner, effective January 1, 2022.
In County of San Luis Obispo v. Superior Court (Munari), No. B147202, Second
Dist., Div. Six. (2001), the Superior Court of San Luis Obispo County
explained that the case before it related to a large property for which a subdivision
map was filed in 1889, “when Benjamin Harrison was President,
Teddy Roosevelt was a civil service commissioner, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s
The Gondoliers was playing at London’s Savoy Theatre”.
Jacqueline A. Beltgens was appointed as a member and chair of the Mental
Health Review Board for a six-month term. She was also appointed as a
member and designated the chair of the Surface Rights Board for a term
ending December 31, 2024.
Joining her as a member of the Surface Rights Board and its vice chair is
Stephen L. Bergen for a term ending February 4, 2024.