2024

The Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch announces Aleem Bharmal, QC, as President for the 2022-23 term. Aleem steps into this position of leadership during a time marked by transformation and modernization, both within the legal profession and justice system. 

"The Aboriginal Lawyers Forum of the Canadian Bar Association BC Branch extends our most sincere congratulations to the Honourable Madam Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin on becoming the first Indigenous person, member of the Abenaki of the Odanak First Nation, nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada."

Like women in many sectors of our society, women lawyers have made significant strides towards equity in the profession over the past decades. However much more needs to be done to achieve gender equity, especially in the areas of pay equity, progression to leadership roles, and the retention of experienced women lawyers in private practice.

On Friday, Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch President Clare Jennings visited Hazelton to deliver laptops to the Upper Skeena Counselling & Legal Assistance Society, collected from CBABC’s Access to Justice (A2J) Tech Drive.

Laptops were donated to the Upper Skeena Counseling and Legal Assistance Society in Hazelton by the Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch.

CBC On The Coast interviews CBABC Executive Director Kerry Simmons, QC on restorative justice.

CBABC seeks funding for legal aid and modernization of court system

The Supreme Court of British Columbia struck down the Attorney General’s limit of 6% of total damages on July 8, 2022, a regulation that limited the recovery of disbursements for successful parties in personal injury actions arising from motor vehicle accidents.

Short, routine matters before a judge could cost clients thousands of dollars

CBABC congratulates Kamloops lawyer, Robert McDiarmid, QC, as the 2022 recipient of the Georges A. Goyer QC Memorial Award for Distinguished Service. The award was presented on June 16 at the Vancouver Bench & Bar Dinner.