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Read about the trailblazing and robe refusing Honourable Nancy
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THE
VOL. 80 PART 3 MAY 2022
Entre Nous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
On the Front Cover: The Honourable Nancy Morrison
By the Honourable Mary Humphries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Changing of the Constitutional Guard: Why the Chief Justice of
Canada Should Never Also Be the Governor General
By Michael A. Johnston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Divorcing Your Toxic Business Partner: A Case Comment
By Neal Steinman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
How to Make A Gift of Land – Part II: Inter Vivos
By Bruce Woolley, Q.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Binding the Will-Maker’s Conscience: Is It Time to Use the
Good Conscience Substantive Trust in Wills Variation Cases?
By Mark S.Weintraub, Q.C., and Polly Storey . . . . . . . . . . . 357
New Ways of Tackling Old Problems: How Technology and
Arbitration are Expanding the Boundaries of Dispute Resolution
By Eric Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
The Fall and Rise of Mary Boland
By Warren J.A. Mitchell, Q.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
On the Design of Virtual Courts: Creating User-Centered,
Evidence-Based Spaces
By Lindsay Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Getting to Know The Man for All Seasons
By Brian Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
The Wine Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
News from the BC Law Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
LAP Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
A View from the Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Announcing the 2022 Advocate Short Fiction Competition . . . 421
Peter A. Allard School of Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
TRU Law Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
The Attorney General’s Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Nos Disparus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
New Judges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
Classified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Legal Anecdotes and Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
From Our Back Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Bench and Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
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