Provincial Court News
July 11, 2024
News and announcements from the Provincial Court.
Current Issue: July 2026
Highlights
The FIFA World Cup is upon us and Association Football is all the rage. The July 2026 issue of The Advocate celebrates by featuring on the front cover soccer-obsessed Kinji C. Bourchier, K.C. standing in front of his family home in Royston, B.C. Kinji’s Japanese-Canadian heritage and its impact on his legal and charitable activities is explored in a cover story by J.P. Bogden. Entre Nous muses on how the popularity of Punjabi music superstar Diljit Dosanjh reflects the cultural diversity of the Lower Mainland and how far (or not) the profession has come since the earliest days of this province.
Hamar Foster, K.C. is a regular contributor to The Advocate and his recent article about the “Conquest” of British Columbia appears in this issue. Another regular contributor, King Charles III (the K. in K.C.), is represented in our pages by a speech he gave to the United States Congress in April 2026. Eric Kroshus shares his view of A.I. in the short story “All Too Human in the Loop” the first place winning entry in the 2025 Advocate Short Fiction Competition. The first part of Joanne Lysyk’s treatise on legal maxims appears in this issue as does Susan MacFarlane’s “Dialogue with the Paisley Snail (or part of it).”
Jay Fogel and Mark Berry get their points across in letters to the editor (one a Grumble). Meanwhile, your rambling editor, D. Michael Bain, K.C. shares reflections on a recent trip to Highgate Cemetery where the likes of Karl Marx, George Eliot, Douglas Adams and Alexander Litivinenko are all interred.
While these authors all vie for your attention, Michael Welsh, K.C. whines about a world without alcohol in the Wine Column. All three law faculties in British Columbia provide us with updates of activities on their respective campuses. The B.C. Law Institute and the CLEBC Society also give us their own updates. After you’ve pondered the dearly departed and the newly appointed, let the world of soccer (or football if you prefer) once again wash over you in this month’s Bench & Bar.
See you at the cup final!
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