Sentences with phrase «bc legal profession»

Supporting the BC legal profession as they develop skills to work with self - representing litigants is well within our mandate.

The British Columbia branch of the Canadian Bar Association's annual conference is an excellent way to earn CPD while connecting with friends in the BC legal profession.

If accurate, Ms. Lindsay's declaration stands to hamper the entire BC legal profession from participating in one of the most important and sweeping technological changes since the advent of the internet.

Not exact matches

West Coast LEAF will intervene at the BC Court of Appeal («BCCA») to call for discrimination - free entry to BC's legal profession, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or marital status.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger lawyers joining the profession.

VANCOUVER — In a step backward for the legal profession, the BC Court of Appeal («BCCA») has dismissed an appeal regarding the Law Society of BC's rejection of the proposed law school at Trinity Western University («TWU»).

For immediate release — November 1, 2016 VANCOUVER — In a step backward for the legal profession, the BC Court of Appeal («BCCA») has dismissed an appeal regarding the Law Society of BC's rejection of the proposed law school Read More

Our students have been readily embraced by the legal profession with 100 % of our 2014 graduates employed throughout BC, Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.

The legal profession got a little less equal today, as the BC Court of Appeal («BCCA») has dismissed an appeal regarding the Law Society of BC's rejection of the proposed law school at Trinity Western University («TWU»).

After a referendum within BC's legal profession, the Law Society of BC decided not to offer accreditation to TWU's law school.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire... [more]

Given that the BC Legal Profession Act serves the same legislative purpose of the Teaching Profession Act (namely the establishment of a regulatory regime to regulate a particular profession), it's inconveivable that a court would interpret the «publc interest» mandate of the former more broadly than the latter.

The legal profession, represented both by the regulators, in the form of the Law Society of BC and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, and by the Canadian Bar Association, as the representative of practising lawyers, opposed the measures as an undue interference with the solicitor - client relationship.