CONTRIBUTORS

Virgil Braithwaite has been attending various law-related events throughout British Columbia for the past 60 years. Virgil is not a practising member (or even former member) of the British Columbia bar, but that has not really deterred him from lurking amongst its members—listening and watching.

Murray Clemens, K.C., on the other hand, is a practising member of the bar and has been so since 1976. An experienced mediator and arbitrator with over 40 years in civil and commercial litigation and administrative law, Murray is a partner at Nathanson, Schachter & Thompson LLP.

Fayme Hodal is called to the bars of British Columbia (2019) and Alberta (2020) and is based in Surrey, British Columbia at KSW Lawyers, where she focuses on taxation and employment law matters.

Adam Howden-Duke is a litigator focusing on commercial and insurance defence work at Guild Yule LLP. Adam has practised law in New Zealand and England as well as Canada and is the current president of the Lawyers’ Inn Society.

Michelle Lawrence is an associate professor at the UVic Faculty of Law. She holds graduate degrees in law and criminology, with a master of laws from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in criminology from SFU. Michelle is the current director for the Access to Justice Centre for Excellence at UVic.

Jenson Leung is a UVic graduate (2017) and practises employment law at KSW Lawyers in Surrey, British Columbia. Jenson has volunteered as a member of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (BC) and as a board member for the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC.

Joel Nitikman, K.C., is a partner in the tax group at Dentons and is a leading tax litigation lawyer. Joel is widely published across a range of publications dedicated to tax law that we heretofore have only dreamed could even exist.

Julie Sloan is the communications officer for the UVic Faculty of Law. She has a B.A. in writing from UVic and has worked in Canadian embassies abroad and as the communications officer for the UVic Department of History.

Ivan Watson is a senior marketing and communications specialist at UVic.