/BarTalk/Articles/2015/April/Columns/Saturday-Night-Live
UVic Law’s 40th was more fun than a Bassomatic I t all started with a cryptic note rather than a voicemail. I was in a hurry. My assistant was in a hurry. Everybody had deadlines. I was frazzled. “ Can you give a speech… 40th anniversary... Saturday Night… Live. ” Finally, ...
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NOTE: the print version of this article makes judicious use of typefaces that cannot be reproduced online. Please follow the links within the article for information on the typefaces, or download a PDF version for the full experience. A Freudian analysis of fonts F ac...
/BarTalk/Articles/2014/December/Columns/Eyes-Wide-Open
I see around 30 students a year from a variety of law firms. I try to break the ice and tell them what I’d once been told about why we do Bencher interviews. Apparently, they were to elicit an answer to Joe McCarthy’s infamous question: “ Are you now, or have you ever been a ...
/BarTalk/Articles/2014/October/Columns/No-One-Expects-the-Spanish-Inquisition
I recently had a discussion with another lawyer about the Ontario election. Instead of discussing voting patterns and demographics, I blurted out something about the “Swing” and the “Swong,” and both of us laughed because we’d seen Monty Python’s “Election Night Special” sk...
/BarTalk/Articles/2014/August/Features/Defences-to-the-Tort-of-Defamation
Absolute privilege is one of the most powerful defences in the law of defamation. The privilege is “absolute” because it cannot be defeated even if the plaintiff proves that the defendant spoke the words with actual malice and knowing them to be false. The occasions on which ...
/BarTalk/Articles/2014/August/Columns/What-To-Do-About-the-Cost-of-Real-Estate
A few weeks ago, my wife and I looked at a condo for sale in Vancouver’s Olympic Village, just in case we ever decide to sell our house in New West and downsize. Although the building was nice and it had a peekaboo view of False Creek, an 1100 ft.² condo with three small bedr...
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/BarTalk/Community/CLEBC/CLEBC-Welcomes-New-Board-Members-(1)
We are pleased to welcome five new CLEBC Board Directors beginning September 1, 2019. Several are current CLEBC contributors and we greatly appreciate their continued support in this new capacity. Dr. Cristie Ford is Associate Dean, Research and the Legal Profession, and...
/BarTalk/Sections-and-News/ALF-Update-December-2022
This year’s annual ALF Holiday Banquet was held on Friday, November 25. We were honoured to host our keynote speaker Justice Len Marchand, Jr. of the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Justice Marchand has dedicated a substantial portion of his career to achieving reconciliati...
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“I read with hesitation the above-noted article, the title of which very effectively gives a heads-up to a coming display of the arrogant elitist/supremacist and condescending tone so often indulged in by the author of this column. In the course of a single page, Mr. Wilson p...