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April 2025 — Immigration Law — FULL
June 2025 — Artificial Intelligence — FULL
August 2025 — Starting your Legal Career — FULL
October 2025 — Social Justice Issues
- A perspective on the controversy with civil disobedience. Some spend a lot of time prosecuting people for defying court orders.
- Where do things stands as to why class actions. Why did we adopt class proceedings? From a class action aspect would be from an academic or critical perspective. Find someone outside of someone defending large corporate interests.
- Some of the main plaintiffs are the BC government seeking litigation.
- Lawyers who work for defendants.
- Lawyers who work for the plaintiff.
- In terms of public interest litigation, we could have someone write about the environment.
- Litigation focused on improving housing for everyone/the unhoused.
- Acting for clients without a fixed address (i.e., unhoused persons). Implications for client ID, service, etc.?
- Activist Shareholder issues.
- Test Charter litigation as well as intervener groups that intervene in appeals. For the most part, in the Supreme Court of Canada.
- Legal Aid funding — general overview of what lawyers who take these cases receive in terms of fees and if this number is outdated or not.
- Technology in legal practice — with new programs that can greatly assist and advance litigation coming onto the market, a lot of which are expensive, will access to these technologies be a barrier for social justice organizations going forward.
- The Human Rights Tribunal and the delays in human rights cases, which is a huge issue.
- Constitutional challenge to the Legal Aid system because of the lack of funding for family law. They had a resolution on this last year but perhaps an update might be good. See https://westcoastleaf.org/release-sma-v-bc-settlement/.
- Constitutional challenges regarding plaintiffs in motor vehicle accidents.
- Advocacy from government to pass legislation e.g., legislation that has passed for online bullying.
December 2025 — Adjudicators and Advocates
- How the judiciary works with lawyers and how lawyers work with the judiciary from a practical/theoretical perspective. How each level of the court interacts with lawyers in various ways?
- Different types of decision makers within that relationship of bench and the bar such as administrative decision makers.
- Tips for how to help the court in the job that they have to do.
- The importance of diversity on the Bench and Diversity on Tribunals. Specifically, how cultural awareness (or lack of it) may affect decisions such as those require subjective assessment of credibility?
- Becoming an adjudicator for the LSBC tribunal.
- The mental wellness of adjudicators.
- The number of outstanding judicial vacancies — an issue with failure to appoint candidates or a failure to find candidates?
- A perspective from an arbitrator on their decision-making processes.
- Non-lawyer adjudicators.
- Administrative procedures in the province.
- Dispute Resolution and Adjudication.
February 2026 — Estate Law
- INDIGENOUS MATTERS — First Nations peoples who live on reserve and have certificate of possession land (CP lands), which is as close as you get to fee simple on reserve land. There is a real problem with residents not having wills in order to pass on these CP lands. The A2J Committee is looking at organizing lawyer volunteers to draft wills for on-reserve people.
- Focus on estate litigation, which is an area where a lot of civil litigators are pivoting toward no-fault. It’s an area where a lot of litigation will arise from the natural passing of the baby boomer generation with significant number of people passing along houses, estates, etc. It’s a slowly growing area of law.
- Succession Planning.
- Estate Planning.
- Pension and benefits considerations.