Fall 2011
A L U M N I A NEW HOME F O R U B C L AW Get an inside glimpse of Allard Hall
U B C L aw A lumn i F am i l i e s Read profiles of four very different and inspirational families who have graduated from UBC Law
U B C L AW S t rat e g i c P lan Find out how far we’ve come
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Contents FEATURES
4 The
off i c i al open i n g of allar d H all
Highlights from the official opening ceremony for Allard Hall. 8 N ew
B e g i nn i n g s , O L D TI E S
In this issue of the UBC Law Alumni Magazine, we take a look at the UBC Law story from its early years in army huts to the present day at
Allard Hall, through the eyes of four very different and inspirational
families. Each family member represents a moment in history for the law school. 10 Taggart Family
17 Williams Family
13 Wilson Family
21 Hara Family
24 H i g hl i g h t s
from the Strategic Plan Report In the fall of 2010, UBC Law launched a five-year strategic plan with concrete commitments to better meet the needs of the UBC Law community. Learn about the Law Faculty’s progress on meeting these commitments.
Depar t men t s
2 Message from the Dean
30 Report on Giving
3 Message from the UBC Law
33 Faculty Matters
Alumni Association President 26 The Road Less Travelled
Last year marked the 25th anniversary of Big Rock Brewery and for Ed McNally, it was the perfect excuse to throw another beer bash.
37 Student Matters 40 Alma Matters 44 Class Notes
46 In Memoriam 47 Closing Arguments 48 Honour Roll
A key feature of Allard Hall is this three-storey forum used for special events and lectures. The law school’s motto “Fiat justitia, ruat coelum” is displayed here in its original letters.
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MESSAGE
from the Dean
Each year promises new beginnings, and this year promises many. After years of planning and fundraising, the Faculty of Law welcomed its first class of students to Allard Hall this past September. This significant milestone would not have been possible without the generous support of our alumni, friends and the legal community. Thanks to you, this campaign has been the largest private fundraising effort for a Canadian law school building. It was an honour to see so many of our alumni from all generations and from across the continent come together to be part of the official opening ceremony at Allard Hall on September 23. As we look ahead to a bright future in a new building, it is fitting to reflect on the law school’s roots. The Honourable Lloyd McKenzie, president of UBC Law’s first graduating class, recalled how the Class of 1948 began their education as temporary tenants of the
What started as an idea over 65 years ago has transformed over the
university’s existing facilities:
years into a state-of-the-art facility with the latest in teaching
We didn’t have any building....the law school existed in the mind of [University of British Columbia president] Norman Mackenzie, and I mean that literally because there was no facility. There was no law school in the bricks and mortar sense. We used a room
technology, designed to inspire and bring together students, faculty and members of the legal community. Allard Hall is more than a building. It’s the foundation for our continuing efforts to be one of the world’s great centres for legal education and research.
in Brock Hall, and our lectures were there.... We didn’t really have
To further us in that pursuit, in late 2010 the faculty launched its first
any facility, it was an idea. The law school was an idea. It was
strategic plan to be developed with input from faculty, staff, students
people. You know it is sort of a tradition of the teacher at one
and alumni from around the globe. The plan will help guide the
end of the log and the student at the other, except we didn’t
law school between 2010 and 2015. You can find a copy of the UBC
even have a log. (W. Wesley Pue, “A History of British Columbia Legal Education”,
Law Strategic Plan inserted in this issue, and on page 24 of this
[Vancouver: University of British Columbia Legal History Papers, March 2000], 221,
magazine you will find details on the progress we have already made
http://ssrn.com/abstract=897084.)
in meeting our goals and priorities. I hope that the stories of our alumni, faculty members and students in the following pages inform, entertain and inspire you. We welcome your feedback and ideas regarding the magazine and other alumni communications. Drop us a line at alumnieditor@law.ubc.ca. Warm regards,
Mary Anne Bobinski
Dean, UBC Faculty of Law
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Law Alumni Association President
MESSAGE
from the UBC
The year 2011 has proved to be an exciting one for UBC Law.
The UBC Law Alumni Association has also had an exciting year.
Earlier this year, the Faculty finalized and implemented
Its spring UBC Law Alumni Awards Dinner was one of the
a Strategic Plan and has already begun to fulfill some of the
best-attended events that our association has hosted, with award
goals of that plan. This five-year Strategic Plan confirms the
winners crossing a broad spectrum of our alumni — young and
vision of UBC Law as one of the world’s great centres for legal
well-seasoned. Our winners included Katrina Pacey, who won for
education and research. It is also a reflection of the dynamic
Outstanding Young Alumna; Dr. Charles Bourne, who won the
nature of UBC Law and its ongoing commitment to being one
Alumni Award for Research; William Berardino, QC and Elizabeth
of the most well-respected and diverse legal education and
Vogt, who each won an Alumni Award of Distinction; and Morley
research facilities.
Koffman, who was honoured with this year’s Lifetime Achievement
On September 23, 2011, the law school celebrated the official opening of its new building — Allard Hall. This new building represents the culmination of years of efforts of many, including many UBC Law alumni. It is a great step forward in the progress
Award. Our fall distinguished speaker lunch, set for November 24, 2011, is likewise expected to be an exciting and well-attended
event with Justice Morris J. Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada speaking to our UBC Law alumni.
of UBC Law. A view of Allard Hall reveals it to be a reflection of
With events such as these, plus UBC Law’s Strategic Plan and the
the dynamic nature of UBC Law and its commitment to preserving
achievement of the new building, these are exciting times for our
its history while ever progressing toward its vision and goals.
law school. Your UBC Law Alumni Association encourages you
With the opening of Allard Hall, many of our past graduates will reflect on their time spent at UBC Law and the experiences they shared in the old law school building. The experiences of the new
to maintain your connection with UBC Law and your fellow alumni. Connect through attending our events, visiting Allard Hall and sharing your experiences, both past and present, with your alumni.
law students will now take shape in a much-changed atmosphere. This issue of the UBC Law Alumni Magazine reflects on generations of UBC Law graduates in multi-generational law families. Those families who continue with new generations of law students will no doubt reflect on and share the varied nature of their experiences
R o d U r q uhar t
at the old law school and, now, at Allard Hall.
President, UBC Law Alumni Association
2011 UBC Law Alumni Association Members
Executive Rod Urquhart, President
Michael Feder, Treasurer
Mr. Justice James Williams,
Warren Smith, Secretary
Vice President Board of Directors Dan Bennett
Craig Jones
Maggie Campbell
Kat Kinch
Garret Chan
Derek Lacroix, QC
Oana Chirila Hyatt
David Miles
Marylee Davies
David Neave
Jennifer Devins
Ryan Parsons
Professor Robin Elliot, QC
Mr. Justice Jon Sigurdson,
Anna Feglerska Kerry Grieve
Past President Gordon Weatherill
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The Official Opening of Allar d H all Close to 500 alumni, faculty, students, staff and friends came together on September 23, 2011 to celebrate the official opening of Allard Hall. The program began with a traditional Musqueam
Chief Justice of Ontario; the Honourable Robert
welcome from Counciller Howard Grant,
Bauman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Cultural Siem for the Musqueam Indian Band, and
of BC; the Honourable David B. Orsborn, Chief
included remarks from the Chief Justice of
Justice of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court
Canada, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin,
of Newfoundland and Labrador; the Honourable
PC; the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia,
Thomas Crabtree, Chief Judge of the Provincial
the Honourable Steven L. Point, OBC; UBC
Court of BC and the Honourable Robert Kilpatrick,
President Stephen J. Toope; and the two lead
Senior Judge Nunavut Court of Justice.
donors to the building project, The Law Foundation of British Columbia and alumnus Peter A. Allard (Class of 1971).
Other guests included Ms. Joyce Murray, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra; Mr. Marc Dalton, MLA for Maple Ridge-Mission;
1 Dean Mary Anne Bobinski welcomes guests
The ceremony was followed by a reception and
Mr. David Loukidelis, Deputy Attorney General,
student-led tours of the new building. Alumni
Province of BC; Sarah Morgan-Silvester,
2 Professor Stephen J. Toope, UBC President and Vice-Chancellor
who were unable to attend in person were able
Chancellor of UBC; and Mr. Bill Levine, Chair of
to be part of the special day through a live
the UBC Board of Governors.
3 Left to right: Second-year UBC Law student Aaron Wilson, Councillor Howard Grant, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, second-year UBC Law student Anthony Oliver
webcast of the ceremony. You can read Allard’s remarks in the “Closing Arguments” section of this magazine and watch the full ceremony on the UBC Law YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/UBCLaw1.
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Also in attendance were former Deans Bertie McClean, QC; Peter Burns, QC; Madam Justice Lynn Smith; and Joost Blom, QC, along with family members of the late George Curtis and Ken Lysyk. The memory of both Deans lives
We were honoured by the many members of
on in the new building through the naming of
the judiciary from BC and across Canada who
spaces. Dean Lysyk is honoured by the naming
attended the opening, including the Honourable
of a seminar room on the first floor and Dean
Pierre Blais, PC, Chief Justice of the Federal Court
Curtis is recognized through the naming of the
of Appeal; the Honourable Edmond P. Blanchard,
George F. Curtis Dean’s and Student Government
Chief Justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court
Suite on the second floor and a mural outside
of Canada; the Honourable Lance Finch, Chief
the suite.
Justice of BC; the Honourable Warren K. Winkler,
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4 Dean Bobinski addresses a
packed house 5 The Honourable Steven L. Point,
presents Dean Bobinski with a gift 6 Peter A. Allard addresses guests 7 Left to right: Kathleen Macdonald (Executive Director, the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy), the Honourable Lance Finch, Peter A. Allard
8 Left to right: Dean Bobinski, Sarah Morgan-Silvester, Peter A. Allard, the Honourable Steven L. Point, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Margaret Sasges (Chair, representing The Law Foundation of British Columbia), Bill Levine, Stephen J. Toope, Howard Grant
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About Allard Hall Located at one of the main entry points to the UBC Point Grey campus, Allard Hall offers a welcoming and inspiring space for the Faculty’s 45 full-time faculty members, 540 JD and nearly 100 LLM and PhD students. The 141,000-square-foot facility includes a mix
of classrooms and large lecture halls along with a new state-of-the-art law library serving as an academic hub for students and the legal community.
1 1 Stunning views of the Coast Mountains from the fourth floor 2 One of three large lecture halls in Allard Hall. The modernized seating design and state-of-the-art technology in the classrooms lends itself to more collaborative teaching and learning experiences for students and professors.
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3 The Richard Buell Sutton Reading Room is located on the second floor of the UBC Law library. The floor-to-ceiling windows provide students with an inspiring space to learn and read.
5 The Hong Kong Alumni Student Lounge is located on the main floor of Allard Hall and serves as the central gathering space for students, faculty, staff and visitors in the new building
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For the past 65 years, UBC Law has opened its doors to generations of future lawyers, politicians, advocates and community leaders. Their success stories have inspired others to follow suit — often within their own families. It’s not surprising that among our graduates are many with family ties — mothers, daughters, fathers, sons, spouses, grandchildren, nieces and nephews — who are carrying on the family tradition. In this issue of the UBC Law Alumni Magazine, we take a look at the UBC Law story from its early years in army huts to the present day at Allard Hall, through the eyes of four very different and inspirational families. Each family member represents a moment in history for the law school. Their collective struggles and triumphs have shaped both the law school and the legal profession today. Whether it was being one of only three female students in a class of 130 men, being the first Japanese-Canadian to become a sole practitioner in BC, or drafting the first and only amendment to Canada’s constitution — all these graduates have left a memorable mark, both on our law school and in society. Their legacies continue, not just through their trail-blazing efforts, but also through their children and grandchildren who are carrying on the tradition at UBC Law.
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Taggart Family
Valerie Taggart ( ’ 4 9 )
D eborah Meredith ( ’ 7 5 ) Daughter
R ob y n G oldsmith ( ’ 1 4 ) Granddaughter
By Heather Conn
Before graduating in the top three per cent of her UBC Law class in 1949, Valerie Taggart (née Manning) had already served a year in the Second World War, as a Wren, or member of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service. After doing drafting for the navy’s sonar system, used to detect enemy submarines, she became the youngest of the war veterans (almost all males) in her class. “The veterans were not there to waste their time,” she says.
Left to right: Deborah Meredith, Valerie Taggart and Robyn Goldsmith
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From a group of about 130 students, Taggart and three other women graduated from the second-ever law class at UBC, “I was determined that I would go into a career where I could make a decent living. I went to law school and loved it.” Taggart says that she did not encounter any overt discrimination from the men in her class, many of whom had been officers and non-commissioned officers during the war. However, when discussing the ‘reasonable man’ standard in tort cases, she remembers one professor saying, “Of course, we know that there’s no such thing as a reasonable woman.” Students of both genders would roll their eyes at such remarks, she says. While articling with Conservative MP Howard Green in 1949, Taggart earned $25 a month while the two male students both earned double that. She says, “I never questioned the disparity. I would have paid to have a respected law firm with which to be associated.” That year, Taggart married lawyer Kenneth E. Meredith, whom she met at UBC (he later spent 20+ years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of BC), and briefly practiced law with her father-in-law, before leaving the profession to raise a family of three. She says now, “It would have been considered presumptuous of me to practice law when he [her first husband] was practicing law, because there were so many veterans who had graduated from law school. They really had families to support.” By 1967, Taggart returned to the legal world and became a course lecturer on women and the law and the judicial system for UBC’s Centre for Continuing Education. In the early 1970s, she did legal research for a law firm and served as counsel for underprivileged women in undefended divorce cases. She later became acting director of the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia. Taggart then spent four years as research director of The Law Foundation of British Columbia and became a provincial court judge in British Columbia. Law school seemed like a logical choice for Taggart’s daughter, Deborah Meredith. Meredith recalls of her childhood, “We talked about law all of the time. We went down to my father’s office, where I knew everybody.
Most of my parents’ friends were lawyers. When dad did The Advocate [he edited the Vancouver Bar Association magazine for a decade], he had it out on the card table. It [law] was always around us. It was a lifestyle, not just a job.” In 1975 Meredith graduated from UBC Law and 12 years later, she returned to UBC for an LLM degree. Since 1980, she has taught commercial and real estate law, and law and international business at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. In 2003, Meredith received the UBC Killam Teaching Award as an outstanding educator. She also ran as a federal Conservative candidate in Vancouver Quadra in 2008 and 2011, but lost to Liberal Joyce Murray. As authoritative women working in the legal profession at a time when it still was dominated by men, Taggart and Meredith experienced their share of not-so-respectful attitudes. “I recall a chambers application,” Taggart says. “A senior judge before me, before the Chief Justice, said to me afterwards, ‘The only reason you won that was because you’re a woman.’ I don’t think it was so at all. It was because I had a good case.” After her appointment to the provincial court, Taggart served briefly in Prince George and Mackenzie. She recalls, “After a trial in Mackenzie, an engaging but somewhat brash young lawyer, speaking to sentence, suggested that he thought my brother judges would agree with the proposal. When I asked him what he thought my sister judges would think, the courtroom, which is packed with loggers, cheered. That was a proud moment.” In a field like law, full of multi-level power relationships, women have to learn not to be patronized, Meredith says. “You have to figure out how to deal with that.” Her suggestion? “Call people by their first names.” While the law talk around the house inspired Meredith to pursue legal education, it was a different story for Meredith’s daughter, Robyn Goldsmith. She found the legal talk at home “boring” and, subsequently, her path to law school was more circuitous. She spent time at the University of King’s College in Halifax before transferring to UBC, where she completed a BA in 2007 with a focus on European Studies. While on exchange at the University of Otago in New Zealand Goldsmith won the European Union Award for Excellence in European Studies. She also spent time
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as a hiking and glacier guide in New Zealand, and as an outdoor instructor on Vancouver Island. It was in these roles that she began to read a lot of cases and literature about legal issues regarding accidents and liability in adventure tourism. That piqued her interest in law, and now, like her mother and grandmother, she is pursuing legal education at UBC. Goldsmith’s first year of law school has been quite different than her mother’s or grandmother’s experience. In 1949, Taggart was one of only four women to graduate that year. By the time Meredith graduated, there were almost 10 times as many women, but they still made up less than 20 per cent of the class. Since the early 90s, UBC law classes have been roughly evenly split between men and women, and Goldsmith’s class is 51 per cent women. But it’s not just the gender breakdown that has changed; the three women all reflect that there are other notable differences between the Classes of 1949, 1975 and 2014. In Taggart’s era, law students — mostly male veterans, many of whom were married — were grateful simply to get their degree and use it to support their family. Back then, the federal government funded war veterans to go back to university; if they stayed in the top 25 per cent of the class,
as she did, the monies continued until the student received a degree. “That was one of the best policies the federal government ever brought in,” she says. During Meredith’s time at UBC Law School, in the Vietnam War years, activism soared and she shared classes with “draft dodger/deserter types.” Those were also the early days of the Aboriginal rights movement, and advocates like Louise Mandell were in her year. The first thing that Goldsmith noticed at UBC Law was many students’ fervent focus on a career, rather than an education. She says, “In my first week of law school, I was overwhelmed and surprised by how immediately people started talking about what articling job they were going to get and what firm they wanted to work for.” Compared to the students in the post-war era, or the early 70s, they feel that today’s law students are more businessminded and want to know more about that aspect of law. Meredith says with a laugh, “When I went to university, it was just nerds who’d be interested in business. Now, most people are, to some degree.” Although the atmosphere at UBC Law School is competitive, Goldsmith doesn’t find it cutthroat; students still support each other. During her first month of classes, she says that her biggest challenge is the social “workload.” “I don’t know how people balance all of the events with the readings. I haven’t figured that out yet.” In Meredith’s era, her section of 60 law students bonded over watching the Canada-Soviet Union hockey series in 1972. Of the eighth and deciding game of that exciting series, she remembers, “We all watched Paul Henderson score that final [winning] goal together.” During Taggart’s law school days, the social highlight was the annual Law Ball, held at the Commodore Ballroom with a live orchestra, attended by faculty and students, all in formal attire.
“Feminism, essentially, is equality of opportunity.” V alerie Taggart
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Today, in her eighties, surveying women’s role in law through the decades, Taggart says that female university students and professionals are riding on the backs of many people, both men and women, who fought for equality for all. She shares the comment of a friend, a provincial court judge and father of three sons: “All right-thinking men are feminists.” In Taggart’s words, “Feminism, essentially, is equality of opportunity.” •
Chief Bill Wilson, Class of 1973, was one of the founding creators of the first annual Tricycle Race at UBC Law.
Far left: Bill Wilson and his wife Bev Sellars
Photo reproduced by Martin Dee
Left: Regional Chief Jody Wilson-Raybould
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C H I E F B I L L WI L S O N ( ’ 7 3 )
J O D Y W I LSO N - R AY BO U L D ( ’ 9 9 ) Dau g h ter
B E V S E L L A R S (’0 1 ) Wife
K O RY WI L S O N - G O E RT Z E N ( ’ 9 9 ) Daughter
In federal law, he has a remarkable distinction: he helped to draft the first and only amendment to Canada’s Constitution. Locally, he helped start a 40-year tradition at UBC Law School that still requires no studying or exams. Sure, up until a few years ago, you might have found cases involved, but they were the kind that held beer. His memorable contribution began with a ramp, water and a kiddies’ pool. By Heather Conn Fall 2011 | UBC LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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Chief Bill Wilson (Class of 1973) was one of the founding creators of the first annual Tricycle Race at UBC Law, a tradition that continues to this day. (Wilson pegs 1971 as its year of origin, but some written sources claim it started a year later.) “Everyone on the trikes ended up soaking wet in the pool,” he says, over lunch at a favourite Greek restaurant in Vancouver’s West End. “We brought fun to the school.”
During first and second year, Wilson worked full time and travelled a lot, holding executive positions in numerous First Nations groups, including Director of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, and of the Native Indians and the Law Program. By third year, he had two full-time jobs, including Director of Aboriginal Title and Land Claims for the BC Association of Non-Status Indians.
When Wilson arrived at law school — after receiving the second-highest mark in the province on his LSAT — he says that he found the atmosphere too uptight. Determined to change that, he announced to his schoolmates, “We’re going to have a beer bash in the lounge.” The dean at the time agreed to let him do it on one condition: “You invite me and we will walk in together.” The event went ahead, offering ham hock sandwiches and beer for a quarter. Wilson added that both students and faculty reached out more to each other as a result. “It [the law school] became a better place.”
Not surprisingly, the outspoken advocate had little time to study and says that his marks weren’t great: “I did just enough to get by.” But he found that his education, particularly in constitutional law, helped him immensely in his political work. In 1970, for example, he discussed a case in Ottawa with Jean Chretien, then Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. “We had just dealt with that case [in class]. I corrected Chretien’s aide.”
Despite his emphasis on fun as UBC’s president of the Law Students’ Association in 1972–73, Wilson played a serious role off-campus, fighting for Aboriginal rights. Wilson (or Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla) is a hereditary chief of the Kwawkgewlth from northern Vancouver Island. He was the second Aboriginal person to graduate from UBC Law, and acknowledges the breakthrough role of the first, Alfred Scow1 (Class of ’61), his first cousin, who graduated from UBC Law more than a decade earlier.
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At one point, Wilson was going to quit law school to focus on full-time work in Ottawa. One of his professors, the late Ray Herbert, urged him to stay, get the ‘canned notes’ and write the Christmas exams. Wilson followed his advice — and aced his exams. He became vice-president of the Native Council of Canada in Ottawa in 1982, which led to what he calls the high point of his political career. In March 1983, Wilson served as negotiator at the First Constitutional Conference on Aboriginal Issues. He met with then prime minister Pierre Trudeau and helped to draft and successfully negotiate the first and only amendment to Canada’s Constitution. In section 35 of the Constitution Act, it expanded the concept of consent regarding treaty rights and Aboriginal title.
Scow became the first Aboriginal lawyer in BC and the first Aboriginal judge appointed to the BC Provincial Court, where he served from 1971 to 1992. He went on to win numerous awards including the UBC Great Trekker Award, a UBC Honourary Doctor of Laws Degree, the Order of BC and the Order of Canada.
Chief Bill Wilson
“The work we did changed this province and the country,” says Wilson, wearing a black T-shirt with ‘Think Indian’ in tall white letters. “It’s a cornerstone built on the 1763 King George Proclamation.” In 1990, Wilson became chair of the First Nations Summit, helping to bring the federal and provincial governments together to create a BC Claims Task Force. This led directly to the creation of the BC Treaty Commission and the treaty negotiations now in progress. “As an Indian leader, the first thing you learn about is land claims,” says the man who grew up listening to his father and others discuss this issue. “I felt a certain mission.” In a family of such legal achievement with politics as the dinner conversation, it’s not surprising that Wilson has two daughters who are UBC Law grads and leaders in their own right in the Aboriginal community. “It was a foregone conclusion that I would follow in my father’s footsteps,” says Jody Wilson-Raybould (Class of 1999), now the Regional Chief of BC for the Assembly of First Nations. “Dad encouraged us to be critical thinkers and to look at the world from all different perspectives. Law school seemed like the most appropriate place to be.” She adds that her activist grandmother, Pugledee, the matriarch of her Eagle clan, also greatly influenced her. “My education has given me the knowledge and understanding to assist our Nations in advancing and implementing our Aboriginal title and rights,” Wilson-Raybould says. Still a practicing member of the BC bar, she uses her legal training as Regional Chief
“Dad encouraged us to be critical thinkers and to look at the world from all different perspectives. Law school seemed like the most appropriate place to be.“
J od y W ilson - R ay bould
and in her community/Nation as a Council member of the We Wai Kai Nation. As a former provincial Crown prosecutor, Wilson-Raybould says that she frequently met judges and lawyers who were her father’s UBC classmates. Following one courtroom success in provincial court, she says, “The judge called me into his chambers and said he had gone to school with my dad and how much that meant to him.” Both Wilson-Raybould and her older sister, Kory Wilson-Goertzen, applied to UBC Law School around the same time, got accepted, and graduated in 1999. Today, WilsonGoertzen is chair of the Aboriginal Studies program at Langara College. “I think that you have a responsibility when you have that much education to help those in the Aboriginal community who haven’t had the same opportunities,” Wilson-Goertzen says. As a member of the Aboriginal Law Graduates Working Group, she helped produce a study that identifies and addresses discriminatory barriers that face Aboriginal lawyers, law graduates and students.
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While at UBC, Wilson-Goertzen says that she enjoyed the support of professors and sharing many classes with her sister. The siblings did not compete with each other; she can’t recall even comparing marks. While pregnant in third year, she remembers waddling to classes, being too big to fit in certain desks. She heard lots of funny stories about her father from faculty who had been his professors or classmates. Yet, at the same time, she acknowledges, “A lot of the students there came from very wealthy families, from a different social class and experience.” This enabled her to witness the impact of a privileged life, she says. She remembers, in particular, that some students in a class on First Nations perspectives were questioning that residential schools had even existed. Bill Wilson’s wife (Class of 2011) went to residential school and has written a novel of her experience called Number One, based on her assigned number under the repressive system. Wilson credits his spouse’s legal education with giving her the courage and confidence to write about this painful event. At UBC, Sellars remembers that she found some content in a required course on property law to be difficult to accept. “The concepts of ownership go against what Aboriginal people think,” she says. “There was nothing in there that recognized us. The history began when the newcomers came.” But she says that she made a lot of good friends through the First Nations Law Students Association. She did community liaison and outreach work through International Indigenous Legal Studies, the research arm of the First Nations Legal Studies Program.
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Today, as Chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation near Williams Lake, BC, Sellars says that she, too, finds satisfaction using her leadership and law education to advance the rights of Aboriginal people. In April of this year, she and other First Nation Chiefs in the northern Shuswap created a leadership council to oversee treaty negotiations with the provincial and federal governments. Previously, she spent six years working for the BC Treaty Commission, presenting workshops around the province that explained the treaty process and its legal concepts. “The federal and provincial governments need to recognize the legitimate place of Aboriginal people,” she says. Wilson-Goertzen uses her knowledge of law every day, since much of her curriculum at Langara is law-based, she says. For instance, the course ‘Contemporary Social Issues for Aboriginal People’ examines the control and colonization of Aboriginal peoples through treaties, legislation, the reserve system and the residential school system. Soon, she plans to launch The Right to Learn Foundation to help Aboriginal learners succeed at any age and any stage of their education, whether they’re in foster care, need a tutor or have a learning disability. In Wilson-Raybould’s words, “True leadership is about the person who demonstrates passion and commitment to what they believe in and what they choose to do in life. True leaders are all around us and they lead by example.” •
W I Lliams Family
D avid Williams ( ’ 4 9 )
S uzanne A nton ( ’ 7 9 ) Daughter
R obert A nton ( ’ 1 1 ) Grandson
J onathan williams (’0 0 ) Son
By Heather Conn
In an artist’s drawing, the late David Williams (Class of 1949) leans casually against his law-office desk, with a warm, bespectacled face and tousled grey hair. His distinctive feature, a compelling smile, suggests that he might have just told a great joke or a ribald tale. He’s the November 1985 cover illustration of The Advocate, the Vancouver Bar Association magazine, which now lies on a table in a west-side café, next to cups of latte and pastries. Left to right: Robert Anton, Suzanne Anton, Jonathan Williams
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The café’s urban scene, with a theme of crêpes and Paris, seems far removed from Williams’ home of decades past, a welcoming patch of 8.9 hectares of farmland outside Duncan, BC, once filled with dogs, horses and sheep. From his rural haven, this notable lawyer and author, whom one writer called “the modern founder of British Columbia legal history,” helped raise a family of five. Two of them became lawyers and graduated in law from UBC, like their dad, and one of these two has a son who graduated from UBC Law School in May 2011. Today, Williams’ two offspring and grandson gather around this café table and his image to share stories of his character and career. Lively Vancouver city councillor Suzanne Anton (Class of 1979), in a black turtleneck and short blonde hair, speaks French with the café owner. Her brother, Jonathan Williams (Class of 2000) of Owen Bird Law Corporation in Vancouver, in a suit and tie, has arrived late, misinformed about our meeting time. (He quips: “I’m a lawyer, I don’t read the fine print.”) Suzanne’s son, Robert Anton, with a cropped reddish beard, sits next to his mom in jeans and a white T-shirt. Together, they evoke the legacy of one of UBC’s few three-generation Law School families. “We come from many, many generations of Anglican church parsons and lawyers,” Suzanne says. “It’s in the genes. I do not know why.” She laughs. Suzanne remembers her dad —“very gregarious” and “a great raconteur”— talking a lot about his Duncan law practice, Williams & Davie, where he worked from 1949 until retiring in 1986. “I always liked what I saw of the legal profession through my father,” she says, noting that he did interesting work, interacted with many people, and was an important part of the community.
Williams wrote in The Advocate in November 1985: “Whatever new forms the legal profession will adopt in the coming century, certain values will endure: cultivation of the intellect, hard work, perseverance, responsibility to the client — and the profession; integrity.”
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Williams served on the UBC senate from 1964 to 1972 and on its Board of Governors from 1969 to 1972. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1968 and served as a bencher of the Law Society of BC from 1971 to 1975. “He [Dad] had a funny pencil story,” remembers Suzanne, adding that she can’t necessarily vouch for it. “Madame Justice Mary Southin was a bencher at the same time. A fellow had a criminal record for stealing a pencil. They had a lengthy debate about whether he should be admitted to the bar. Mary Southin, I know, was strongly opposed. My father was opposed too. But they were outvoted.” “Anyway, they let him in. Sure enough, a few years later, or some time, this guy actually was disbarred for some kind of evidence of public fraud.” Robert remembers his mom telling him about his grandfather showing her “particularly gruesome” photos from a Nanaimo murder case that he was working on. “What I took from the story isn’t that it was odd for him to be showing her these awful photos,” he says, “but that it was noble of my grandfather to leave his comfortable house and go out and help deal with these terrible things.” For his own entry into law, Robert spent a month studying for his LSAT. His mother didn’t study for hers at all; she wrote the exam in Kano, Nigeria, while teaching for Canadian University Students Overseas (CUSO). Suzanne says, “Those were the days when you just walked in and did it.” She says now of her legal education, “I don’t think I did very much work. I remember thinking in third year, ‘This is the easiest gig I ever had.’” She recalls a law-student charade tournament (not part of the curriculum), convened by the law librarian Tom Shorthouse, the father of John “Shorty” Shorthouse, play-by-play announcer for today’s Vancouver Canucks Pay-Per-View. “You went into the library and chose the most outrageous titles you could find, the longer and more complicated the better. It was very, very entertaining. We actually practiced quite a lot. We had so much fun.” Her victorious team “cleaned up so dramatically” that the tournament fizzled the next year and then disappeared, she says.
Suzanne also recalls members of her first-year class doing a 10-minute dramatization of a landmark case in English
contract law, Lloyds Bank Ltd. v. Bundy. “It was very funny.” The instructor, Joost Blom, QC, who still teaches at UBC, remembers, “A great cheer went up. They [the students] set up a stereo. A tall woman in the class was dressed as the golden threads of the law. I think they wrapped the threads of the law around me. It was great fun.” Suzanne says, “I loved being at law school. I really liked my classmates.” Starting in after two years away, she found that many of her fellow law students already had other careers. “Any area of expertise you could wish for, somebody had it.” After serving as a Crown prosecutor, Suzanne retired from law in 1999 to work full time in the community. Her brother Jonathan entered law school after working as a supervisor for a tree planting company under Joyce Murray, later the Liberal MP for Vancouver Quadra. He remembers: “At the end of September, in first year, I couldn’t believe how much I’d learned. It blew my mind. It opened my eyes to a lot of things: how courts work, how administrative tribunals worked, how government worked — things that had touched my life.” His most humourous memory of law school is “the look of stunned disbelief” on students’ faces when they got their first-term marks; many received lower marks, at least initially, than they had as an undergrad. Suzanne, who had excelled at math, says that she found adjusting to legal writing a challenge at first, but by the end of first year, she was in the top quarter. Back then, UBC Law ranked students based on marks, a practice now discontinued. Suzanne remembers many of her professors with great affection, including Joost Blom, Robin Elliot, QC, and Liz Edinger, still on faculty, who also taught Jonathan and
Robert. Edinger, who belonged to the same South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club on Vancouver Island as the Williams family, says, “I was delighted to have all of them [Suzanne, Jonathan, Robert] come through UBC Law.” She remembers David Williams as “always charming” and his law practice as “the eminent firm” in Duncan. During the more than three decades that separate the graduation of Suzanne and her son, UBC Law has, understandably, seen considerable changes. Although there are more course options and offerings now, the core courses still remain, says Edinger, who started teaching full-time at UBC in 1978. Graduating classes are now smaller (about 180, rather than 240), more ethnically diverse, and the gender ratio is about 50/50. Blom remembers that there were few female law students at UBC when he started teaching there in 1972. In the early days of feminism, he says it took only about two years before females made up one-quarter to one-third of the class. During that era, law students even published a rating of faculty members, based on their gender-correct language, he says. “They suspected me of not being correct, but they couldn’t prove it,” he says with a laugh. “You were suspect because of age and gender.” By contrast, most of Robert’s law professors were women. Decades ago, in his first-year contracts class, Blom used English cases far more than now, when good, recent Canadian cases are available. Older legal decisions were much shorter than modern judgments because they drew on fewer cases, he adds. Jonathan points out that BC law is derived more from England; even today, this province tends to look at English law more than Ontario does, he says.
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Technological change is one significant difference in modern law education, says Edinger. “Before, people actually had to sit in the library. Now, they can access databases at home.” Online archives have replaced swelling shelves of reference books and old cases. In the past, she says that she encountered incidents of articles torn out of law periodicals —“it happened enough to concern us”— but as Robert points out, “That doesn’t work anymore with the Internet.”
Did Williams ever share war stories with his children? Jonathan recalls, “Dad was the first to admit that he had an undistinguished war career. He served, but did not leave the country. His funniest story was being sent to guard a Halifax brewery during the Halifax riot in May 1945 on VE [Victory in Europe] Day. No rioter came within a mile of the place, but dad remembered seeing a rat climb out of one of the beer vats. Not that I ever asked him, but perhaps that helped lead to his preference for Scotch whiskey.”
Today’s increased competition for articling jobs and student worries about potential employment are one big difference that both Blom and Jonathan see compared to law school in the decades prior to the most recent recession.“Everybody got a job in my year,” Jonathan says. “That is not always the case right now.” Nephew Robert will be articling for corporate law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt. (As of October 2011, the number of third-year UBC Law students who reported securing 2012–2013 articling positions was close to 97 per cent.
Williams graduated from UBC’s second-ever law class. Many decades later, he gave informal presentations on legal history at monthly law gatherings on campus. By then, he had written significant legal books such as Trapline Outlaw, on fugitive Simon Gunanoot, and historical biographies of former Chief Justice of the Crown Colony of BC, Matthew Baillie Begbie, and former Chief Justice of Canada, Sir Lyman Poore Duff. Williams later joined the BC Press Council and was adjunct professor and writer-in-residence for many years at the University of Victoria.
As for the law profession itself, Jonathan reaffirms that the once-prized vision of a paperless office is a myth. “I have one single file that takes up about three rows of filing cabinets,” he says. “Technology certainly hasn’t led to a reduction in the use of paper. Far from it. Everybody delivers huge whacking affidavits by email. Almost every day, there’s a 70-page affidavit coming with a whole bunch of documents attached to it.”
How would Williams, who died of cancer in 1999, regard today’s law school experience and profession if he was alive? “The popular use of technology would both fascinate and mystify him,” Jonathan says. “Dad didn’t ever use a computer. He never learned to type. He dictated everything.” Jonathan calls himself a chip off the old block, saying he’s probably the only lawyer in Western Canada who doesn’t have a cellphone.
Today’s UBC law students “are wired” for technology, says Edinger. By contrast, David Williams learned in army huts that were relocated on-site after Second World War use. Like many other students in the early days of the law school, he was a veteran, and enrolled after serving two years in the Royal Canadian Artillery. The UBC Law Library then had only two books, while case books cost six dollars each, reproduced by a Gestetner with brown material covers and shoestring (literally) bindings.
“He (David Williams) made a great point of not knowing how to put the paper into the photocopy machine. Things were simpler then. They were also more efficient.” S uzanne
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Suzanne adds, “He made a great point of not knowing how to put the paper into the photocopy machine.” She thinks that her father would find today’s practice of law far more complex. “Things were simpler then. They were also more efficient.” Williams wrote in The Advocate in November 1985: “Whatever new forms the legal profession will adopt in the coming century, certain values will endure: cultivation of the intellect, hard work, perseverance, responsibility to the client — and the profession; integrity.” His words might well form an inspirational subtext for UBC Law as it strives to create exciting new forms of exceptional learning and research, buoyed by its five-year strategic plan (2010 to 2015). Jonathan says, “UBC is the institution that shapes BC law.” As for practicing law, Robert says, “Helping solve problems, whatever the problems may be, is a pretty noble calling.” •
H ara Family
T homas H ara ( ’ 6 1 )
B radley H ara ( ’ 8 9 ) Son
G lenn H ara ( ’ 7 6 ) B ro t h e r
By Heather Conn
Left to right: Thomas Hara, Glenn Hara and Bradley Hara
As a Japanese-Canadian growing up in British Columbia during the years of the Second World War, Thomas Hara, QC (Class of 1961) lived with more than his share of discrimination. Thomas still remembers being eight years old and living in East Vancouver in 1942 when he and his family faced a Canadian government decree: all Japanese residents had to live at least 161 kilometres (100 miles) from the Pacific Ocean. That same year, the
federal government seized all Japanese-owned real estate and property, later selling it without authority or consent.
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Thomas and his family escaped the 1942 detainment of Japanese in Vancouver by evacuating by train to Kamloops. When the city closed Pattullo Bridge to all Japanese, his father was one of the last to leave Vancouver, travelling by car. In Kamloops, the family lived in an abandoned log cabin, without water. As a child, he was refused admission to elementary school because of his ancestry. As an adult in the late 1950s, Thomas was the first Asian to work on the top deck of coastal ships that ran from Vancouver to Alaska. A captain saw him polishing brass in the wheelhouse and confronted him, saying, “What are you doing here? We can’t mix the crew [by race].” When Thomas was asked to report back to the union hall, a supportive union rep told him, “If they can’t mix the crew, they can’t sail the ship.” Years later, Thomas helped negotiate the same union’s election process. It was not until the late 1940s that Asian-Canadians were granted the right to vote in British Columbia, removing one of the barriers to practicing law. By the time Thomas arrived at UBC Law, Andrew Joe (UBC Law Class of 1952) became the first Chinese-Canadian called to the bar in BC. In a 1995 interview, George Curtis, founding Dean of UBC Law, recalls President MacKenzie consulting with the deans on the university’s policy regarding racial exclusions: A Japanese grade 12 student who was attending school upcountry, where her parents had been “evacuated” in 1942, had just won a provincial scholarship to attend UBC. But the restrictions against Japanese living at the Coast were still on. Would the University incur public criticism if it sought exemption from the restrictions for the young lady? I expressed my settled view on the responsibility of universities.... I added that I would check with my veteran students to make sure I was right. I did. To a man they spontaneously said that the University should not think twice about getting permission; moreover, the ex-majors, wing commanders and other ranks, gave their opinions in decisive terms. “What in the name of all that is holy,” more than one asked, “had they fought the war for?” (W. Wesley Pue, “A History of British Columbia Legal Education”, [Vancouver: University of British Columbia Legal History Papers, March 2000], 199, http://ssrn.com/abstract=897084.)
The veterans who made up the first class at UBC Law set the stage for the attitude of inclusion that Thomas found when he arrived at the law school in 1958. Although he was one of the few Asian students at UBC Law at that time, he did not feel discriminated against in any way. The vast majority of his classmates and professors were very respectful. “It was a great place to go to school.” 22 UBC LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE | Fall 2011
A notable exception was the time a lawyer from a downtown Vancouver firm, who visited his third-year UBC Law School class in 1960, told him that his chances of success in the profession were extremely poor. In front of the whole group, he said to Hara, “Who would go see a Japanese lawyer?” The comment left Thomas greatly discouraged, but not enough to deter his career plans. Within a year of graduation, he was the first Japanese-Canadian to open a sole law practice in British Columbia, prompting coverage in The New Canadian in Toronto. A few years later, one of his cases hit the media headlines; a former law classmate repeatedly shook his hand in congratulations, reminding Thomas of the earlier dismissive prediction, now seemingly irrelevant. But in his early years as a trial lawyer, racist assumptions still dogged Thomas. He recalls, “The judge would talk to the client and think that I was the accused.” Or a judge would call him into his chambers and ask, “‘What school did you go to?’ They were surprised to see an Asian in court.” By the 1970s, Thomas had run a thriving practice in labour and criminal law for more than a decade. He tried to encourage his younger brother Glenn (Class of 1976) to enter UBC Law, but Glenn was in the Faculty of Education and wanted to be a teacher. Later, as a self-described “jock,” Glenn switched to physical education, seeking a career in sports medicine. Since UBC didn’t have such a program then, he applied to various schools and received a full scholarship to the University of Alberta in Edmonton. With Glenn ready to head off to Alberta, big brother Thomas said, “Why don’t you at least apply to law at UBC?” By then, Glenn had decided, “It’s pretty cold in Edmonton.” He applied to UBC — and got in. Glenn says that his law years at UBC were great, characterizing the Faculty as “very athletic.” He fell in with a good group of fellow athletes, playing intramural hockey in a “very competitive” atmosphere. Glenn’s articling opportunity was an easy choice: he worked at his brother’s firm. By 1977, he joined his practice, handling the solicitor’s work. Thomas and Glenn sit now in the corner of UBC’s Asian Centre with Thomas’s son Bradley (Class of 1989), all three dressed in ties and dark suits. Glenn and Thomas laugh while recalling a comment from an insurance adjuster who worked for many years across the hall from their Hara & Company office in East Vancouver. Thomas recalls that one
day, the man said to them, “What do you guys do in there?” He had no idea what type of company they had. Their office sign, made from a fancy piece of oak provided by a client’s cupboard business, had room only for “Hara & Company,” not “barristers and solicitors,” Glenn explains. This low-key marketing approach didn’t seem to hurt business; today, almost all work is referral. Glenn found a solicitor’s niche in representing second- and third-generation Japanese, including many restaurant owners. “I think they feel a little intimidated going to the downtown law firms.” After travelling solo in Japan in 1981, Glenn learned the language and its culture and heritage, which has helped him reach out in business, socially and as a volunteer in the local Japanese-Canadian community. With his dad and uncle as role models, Bradley says, “There was no question that I was going into law.” He also joined the law school hockey league, like his uncle, and played against five or six teams in intramurals. Bradley joined the family law firm in 1992, doing mostly litigation. He chuckles while remembering one client who thought that his last name was O’Hara. After Bradley got him acquitted, the client went to a pub to celebrate and told people, “I thought my lawyer was Irish, but he’s Japanese.” Once, Thomas received a letter from a law firm in Ireland, asking if he, supposedly an “O’Hara,” could help them with a case. “When my son joined our firm, I was of course very proud,” says Thomas. “After training him away from the practice style of the large law firm where he articled and practiced, he found his own style and developed a large practice with most of his clients involved in real estate, acquisitions and corporate law. I am very proud that he has managed to assert his own style of practice despite being in a firm with his father and uncle.” Thomas, now retired, has stayed in touch with the men and women he graduated with so many years ago. This fall, along with his classmate former Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm, he organized their 50th reunion. Bradley and Glenn still work together in the Nanaimo Street law firm that Thomas founded. During our conversation, they have been checking their BlackBerrys, noting that technology has brought the biggest change to the practice of law since their dad’s era. Clients and others assume that you’ll always be available by cellphone, says Bradley, and they expect an email reply within 10 minutes. Glenn,
“When my brother joined me, I handed over all the civil aspects of my practice as well as the management of the staff and office. This took much of the load off me. I am eternally grateful to my brother. In 30 years of practicing together, we never had one argument or disagreement.” T homas H ara
in turn, says that the advent of the photocopier makes ‘trials by paper’ more common. He calls email “a great thing” but observes, “You can never get away from work.” Thomas had no idea that he would find the practice of law so fulfilling (or that he was starting a family business) when he applied for law school after completing an undergraduate degree in honours English and Chemistry. He had decided to go into law partly because he enjoyed using words and reading Latin. It didn’t take long for him to realize he had found work he loved. Glenn remembers that when he joined his brother’s firm, Thomas told him, “I hope you enjoy it [law] as much as I do.” Thomas’s take on his brother and son joining him in business? “A dream come true,” he says. “When my brother joined me in 1976 as an articling student, I had been in private practice for 15 years as a sole practitioner,” explained Thomas. “I was doing a lot of court work, as I was counsel to six International Labour Unions, and also doing criminal trials. I also acted for approximately 100 companies, so I was extremely busy. So when my brother joined me, I handed over all the civil aspects of my practice as well as the management of the staff and office. This took much of the load off me. I am eternally grateful to my brother. In 30 years of practicing together, we never had one argument or disagreement.” •
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Highlights from the Strategic Plan Report In the fall of 2010, UBC Law launched a five-year strategic plan (see magazine insert for a copy of the plan) with concrete commitments to better meet the needs of the UBC Law community. The plan was developed with extensive consultation with students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the legal community and we are grateful for their continued support, feedback and guidance as we implement the UBC Law strategic plan. Below are some highlights.
A c t i on I t em :
This spring, the Faculty established two new
Ensure Student Access to Legal Education,
full-tuition scholarships. The Lawson Lundell LLP
Regardless of Financial and Other Barriers
Entrance Scholarship joins a prestigious list of
The Faculty remains committed to attracting the strongest students to UBC, to enhancing student financial aid, and to working with others to
donor-funded entrance awards that recognize academic excellence and help the Faculty attract the best and brightest law students in Canada.
encourage graduates to pursue careers focused
The Hilda Janzen Memorial Award in Feminist
on underserved populations.
Legal Studies, created by Sonya Wall in memory of her aunt, will be granted annually to a male or female student in good academic standing who has demonstrated leadership in feminist issues and who faces financial or systemic barriers to accessing or continuing a legal education. Another new initiative this year serves both to facilitate freedom of career choice and address the issue of access to justice in British Columbia. With leadership from Jim Taylor, QC and The Law Foundation of British Columbia, the Faculty is working to establish the Beverley McLachlin Legal Access Award. This will be awarded to graduating UBC Law students who choose articling positions in rural and aboriginal communities, smaller urban centres, and public interest or social justice organizations.
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2011 Dean’s Advisory Council
Honourary Chair The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, Chief Justice of Canada Members The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, PC, CC, QC The Honourable Lance Finch, Chief Justice of British Columbia The Honourable Robert Bauman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia The Honourable Thomas Crabtree, Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of British Columbia Mr. Barry Emes A c t i on I t em :
A c t i on I t em :
Mr. Mike Harcourt
Expand and Improve Course-Based
Engage Community Volunteers to
Mr. Frank Iacobucci, CC, QC, LLD
Master’s Programs
Enhance Research, Teaching and
Ms. Olivia Lee
Learning Opportunities at UBC Law
Mr. Jamie Maclaren
In May 2011, the Faculty welcomed the first
Mr. Doug Mitchell, CM, AOE, QC
cohort to our new LLM Common Law program,
In 2010, the Faculty established the UBC
Mr. A. Keith Mitchell, QC
a year-long, course-based professional program
Law Dean’s Advisory Council. This group was
Ms. Linda Parsons, QC
that provides foundational training in
created to provide strategic advice and
Mr. Ron Stern
the common law and in Canadian law for
direction to the Faculty and has a rotating
Mr. Victor Yang
foreign-trained or lawyers not trained in
membership, with members serving terms
Mr. Gavin Hume, QC,
common law. The program, unique in Canada,
of one to three years.
President, Law Society of
The Faculty and council were greatly
British Columbia
saddened this year by the loss of inaugural
Mr. Stephen McPhee,
member Don Brenner, QC, who also served
President, Canadian Bar
as Chair of the Dean‘s Advisory Council
Association, BC Branch
for the National Centre for Business Law
Mr. Rod Urquhart,
(see sidebar for list of 2011 members). •
President, UBC Law
offers students the opportunity to complete a master’s degree in Law while also working towards the coursework requirements for the practice of law in Canada.
Alumni Association
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T he R oad l e s s t r a v e l l e d
A Thirst for Success… an d g oo d beer
by Chris Cannon
E d M c N ally cla s s of 1 9 5 1
Last year marked the 25th anniversary of Big Rock Brewery and for Ed McNally, it was the perfect excuse to throw another beer bash. Ed founded Big Rock Brewery in 1985 after decades of practicing law, farming and raising cattle. An Alberta native, Ed attended UBC Law in the army-hut days of the 1950s before there was a brick-and-mortar facility. “It was one of my smarter choices in life, going to UBC,” he says wistfully, recalling the dark foggy campus nights, an “interesting” roster of professors and classmates, and the formidable University President and law scholar Norman Mackenzie. Now a grandfather of eight, he shares brewery responsibilities with two of his four children — Shelagh, manager of special projects, and Kathleen, the company’s director of operations. Ed still maintains a ranch near Waterton and grows berries and wheat on the Okotoks farm he calls home, but his heart lies in his Calgary-based brewery, which is respected worldwide as a home of quality Canadian craft beers. More than a brewery, Big Rock is heavily involved in charity and the arts, including the Big Rock Eddies (their annual short-film competition) and evening lectures at the brewery that generate proceeds for the local university. Though Ed is a hands-off boss — he leaves the recipes to his brewmasters — although he admits that his first attempts at the beer-making process occurred back in his law school days. 26 UBC LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE | Fall 2011
Tell me about your brewing experiment at the Law School.
Well, we stayed at a boarding house that was run by a woman named Mrs. Stele, just outside the campus. My roommate and I decided we wanted to brew some beer. Mrs. Stele was a bit of a teetotaller, but she got very interested in helping us. We boiled it on her stove in the kitchen and then we put it in bottles and put it upstairs in our bedroom, where our clothes were. And in the middle of the night they started exploding. So our clothes stunk of beer and poor Mrs. Stele was having her ladies from the church over for dinner and she was very alarmed, but we weathered that. It was the last attempt I made at brewing beer. It’s very powerful if you put it in the wrong container. And that was your first experience brewing beer?
That’s right! The first and last time. It was absolutely undrinkable! Did you have a name for it?
No no. I wouldn’t do that. I don’t think you could have called it beer, legally! What did you drink when you were at school here?
It was all the same — all pretty standard and pretty poor. It took a trip to Europe for me to taste real beer. I went the World’s Fair in Brussels and they had a lot of German beer and a lot of Brussels beer, so that’s really what got me interested in beer, how good it could be and how varied it was. Why did you return to Alberta to practice law?
Well, I had a job to come back to here. I articled in Calgary, and worked in Lethbridge for a while, and then I came back with another firm when Calgary was starting to boom. They had the oil
discovery in Leduc, Alberta, so I had a lot of opportunities here. I did quite a bit of oil and gas leasing in Northern Alberta. I wish I was smart enough to keep a couple of those leases! Was oil and gas leasing your specialty, or did you have a broader focus?
I got involved with the local farmers and sued the Wheat Board, as the farmers weren’t being paid for their selected barley. That really opened up a lot of doors for me. I ended up going to Scotland. We couldn’t buy European cattle and bring them into Canada, but I had this friend in Scotland who had a big farm, and he got the European cattle to Scotland and we could bring the progeny out to Canada. The first cattle sale we had was in a ballroom at the hotel downtown, the Westin. This is downtown Calgary?
Yeah. My wife was in the parking lot down below and leading the cattle up through the kitchen, right into the ballroom. I think we sold about 24 cattle. I think we averaged over $2,000 a head. We went out of there with a pile of money. I thought we were the smartest guys in town. And was that part of your transition from working in law to founding a brewery?
It sure was! Because of the barley, I got interested in the cattle business, and then when Fritz Maytag bought the old Anchor Steam Brewery in San Francisco, he inspired me to do the same. I had a German friend who came out because of the cattle, and I told him about a little brewery in Seattle. So we went down there, and he said, “Well, there’s nothing to this!” So he went back to Europe and I got a call from him, and he said “I’ve got a brewmaster!” I said, “What are you going to do with a brewmaster?” and he said, “Well, that’s your problem!”
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So I went running around Calgary looking for a building. We bought the Big Rock, and then we bought the building north of that, it was a Bigger Rock, and then we bought a building south of that and it was a Big Big Big Rock building, and then we bought 14 acres of land and that’s where we’re sitting right now. We have a very modern, very good brewery. Technically we were the first, I think, in Canada or North America to have sterile filtration, so we never had to pasteurize our beer. Did you see this coming when you started the brewery? Did you imagine how big it might be?
No, I would not have believed it if you’d shown me what we were starting on. I mean, you could throw the entire brewery we had before in one of these buildings. We got a pretty big brewery here now. Are you aware that Big Rock is the beer of choice for UBC Law student beer-ups?
I am! Some of them used to come over here by bus and spend a few days. They had a Big Rock Club and they came over here and we fed them beer and gave them T-shirts and we had a very close bond with them. I guess they’re all judges by now. Is there something special about Alberta that makes for great beer?
Well, the malting plant we have in Calgary is one of the largest in the world, and a lot of the malt goes to China and the Far
East, so they do have top malts around here — we can select our malts. And that really is so important to the flavour of the beer. Is that the special ingredient in Big Rock?
Yeah, that’s one of them. And our yeast, of course. The yeast flavours the beer. But you gotta get the right malt and you have to get the right yeast and then you have to cook it right. One of the things we don’t do is pasteurize, which cooks the beer. So we have a huge advantage to our beer because it tastes fresh and good, and it is! It’s a major development in the industry. People are copying us all over the place because it’s actually more efficient than pasteurizing — we chill it down to .2 microns. And we have very good water here, fresh Rocky Mountain water. It’s not too soft. One of the problems they have around Seattle and Vancouver is that their water is very soft and they have to put additives in it because the yeast needs some chemicals. The famous beers in England come from those chalk areas in Southern England, which provides sort of a neutral powder, but it makes the yeast very happy. What are you developing in your pilot brewery now?
Recently we’ve come up with a Scottish type of beer, which is very popular. We’ve got one or two that are so good that we’ll probably start developing them in volume. What do you look for when you consider releasing a new beer?
They [UBC Law students] had a Big Rock Club and they came over here and we fed them beer and gave them T-shirts and we had a very close bond with them. I guess they’re all judges by now.
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We do pretty wide tastings, you know, and if there’s an agreement amongst the brewers and the other people who work in the brewery then we proceed. It takes a while to develop it, and it’s a pretty big investment because we have to make a lot of the beer, and if it’s no good, you have to throw it away. So I think we’re going to have to slow down on the number — we’ve got too many beers perhaps, different styles. Like Heineken — they have one beer, worldwide.
Photo courtesy of Big Rock Brewery
Do you have a favourite Big Rock beer?
Depends what I’ve had for breakfast! The most popular beer we have is our Traditional Ale, with a beautiful label — I think everybody enjoys the Traditional Ale. And the most surprising one we have is one we call Grasshopper, which is made with wheat rather than malt, and that is recognized all over. Is that a special Alberta wheat?
Yeah, it’s quite different. It doesn’t ferment readily, it’s not as sweet as malt and barley, but it is extraordinarily popular — I think it’s probably getting to be our most popular beer. What qualities would you consider essential for the ultimate beer?
Well, it has to be stable and it has to have clarity and it has to be something we
can do time after time. We don’t want to surprise anybody with the wrong label. I think the brewery is like running a hospital — you gotta keep everything sterile and clean and fresh. Do you see Big Rock moving beyond the Canadian market at some point?
You know we’ve had all kinds of proposals, but the trouble is that if we grow too much, we lose the lower tax on small breweries. So if we make a big move, we’re going to have to change. But what’s the use of building another big brewery? I mean, the secret we have is the craft brewery and we gotta stay within that; that’s our boundary, a craft size. You have to totally change the process if you get too big. I think, if we’re going to be true to ourselves, we’re going to stay a small brewery. •
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Report o n G i v i n g This has been an especially exciting year for UBC Law. Allard Hall, the first purpose-built, all-new building for a Canadian law school in 30 years, opened its doors this fall. Thanks to you, our alumni and
friends, we have raised nearly $35 million towards the new building. The success of our fundraising campaign would not
Additional areas that benefited from donor
have been possible without The Law Foundation of
support include student financial aid, faculty
British Columbia and their generous commitment
research and other priority programs.
to two separate matching fund grants totalling $12 million for the building campaign. Major gifts
by leading law firms and graduates, along with
Kari Streelasky
hundreds of contributions from alumni and friends of the law school, allowed us to reach our fundraising goal of $24 million. In July, UBC Law received an $11.86 million gift from law alumnus Peter A. Allard to support the Faculty’s new building, establish an international prize that supports freedom, integrity and human rights, and create an online historical faculty archive. The gift is the single largest donation to the Faculty and one of the largest donations ever to a Canadian law school. In honour of Mr. Allard’s generosity, the university named its new law building Allard Hall. Over the past year, a significant portion of
Here are a few examples of how your donations impacted the Faculty last year: • The Faculty established its first full-tuition scholarship supported by a law firm • An annual award to recognize leadership in feminist legal issues was created, making it the largest award available for an individual UBC Law JD student
• The Beverley McLachlin Legal Access Award was established to support UBC Law students who choose articling positions in rural and Aboriginal communities, in smaller urban centres, or in public interest or social justice organizations • A UBC Research Abroad Travel Grant program was established to provide two annual grants over the next five years to JD students conducting international research.
donations were directed to the building campaign.
Start an Evolution
In October, UBC launched its most significant
scholarships, faculty positions, and programs and activities that will fulfill the promise of
fundraising and alumni engagement campaign in
the inspiring facilities we now have for teaching,
Canadian history. Before it is completed, an
research and community outreach.
additional $1.5 billion dollars will be available to accomplish meaningful changes from and through UBC. UBC Law completed the first leg of the campaign by raising nearly $35 million
We thank you for your tremendous support and we look forward to another rewarding year at UBC Law.
for the new law school building. With the completion of the building campaign, we are working to secure investments in student
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Hi g hl i g h t s from t his y ear
Andrew R. Thompson Award This $22,500 fund was established by Agnes
Lawson Lundell LLP Entrance Scholarship
Thompson, widow of Andrew R. Thompson,
Earlier this year, UBC Law announced a
a former UBC Law professor whose groundbreaking
commitment of $15,000 annually from Lawson
research, teaching and practice advanced the
Lundell LLP to establish the Lawson Lundell LLP
fields of natural resource and environmental law.
Entrance Scholarship, the first full-tuition
He also started the environmental law program
scholarship supported by a law firm.
at UBC. The Andrew R. Thompson Award is given each year to a student to support a summer internship in environmental law.
“Supporting students at UBC Law has always been a priority for Lawson Lundell,” says Managing Partner Brian Fulton. “We chose to establish a
JD student Patrick Weiler is the inaugural recipient
full-tuition scholarship to reward both academic
of the $7,500 Andrew R. Thompson Award.
excellence and individual initiative.”
Patrick spent the summer of 2011 working at Tides Canada in Vancouver on their Energy Initiative project to promote clean technology and green energy. He worked with a team doing research and consultation with non-governmental organizations, industry, businesses, government and other stakeholders to help shape Canada’s new national energy strategy for consideration by
“Lawson Lundell has shown great leadership in the legal community and commitment to UBC Law with this gift,” says Professor Robin Elliot, QC, Chair of the Scholarships & Awards Committee at UBC Law. “A scholarship at this level will help
the Faculty to continue recruiting the best and brightest students in the country.”
energy ministers. Patrick also worked on policies
The Lawson Lundell LLP Entrance Scholarship
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and policies
will be awarded each fall to a student entering the
on transportation and urban design projects.
JD program.
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New Bursary Fund Morley Koffman (Class of ‘52) has made a
Hilda Janzen Memorial Award in Feminist Legal Studies
gift of $30,000 to UBC Law that will endow a
The Hilda Janzen Memorial Award in Feminist
bursary fund for law students who have
Legal Studies will be granted annually to a male or
demonstrated financial need. The successful
female student in good academic standing who
students will be recommended by the UBC Office
has demonstrated leadership in feminist issues
of Student Finance Assistance and Awards. The
and who faces financial or systemic barriers to
bursary will be available starting in the 2012/2013
accessing or continuing a legal education.
academic sessions. “I established this bursary fund to ensure that the
Donor Sonya Wall was inspired to establish the award by the commitment shown by her aunt,
best and brightest students have the opportunity
the late Hilda Janzen, to the advancement of
to attend and graduate from law school. As a law
women in professional fields, and by the costs
alumnus, I am grateful for the opportunities
and other barriers students face in pursuing a
that UBC Law has provided me with and am happy
legal education.
to support those who don’t have the financial means to do so.”
This award will be the largest available for an individual UBC Law JD student. At $18,000
Mr. Koffman, who has also made a significant
annually, the award will cover the current costs
gift to the construction of Allard Hall, was
of tuition and books for the recipient, as well as
the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award
offset living expenses for the year. Susan Boyd,
at the 2011 Law Alumni Achievement Awards
Professor of Law, Chair in Feminist Legal Studies,
dinner held this past in April.
and Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies says, “This amazing new award recognizes two important facts: first, that there is an ongoing need for lawyering inspired by a feminist ethic and second, that many students who are committed to bringing their feminist approach to law can encounter barriers in the course of obtaining a law degree. Sonya’s generosity ensures that the law school community will be enriched by the presence of feminist students and that their expertise will promote social justice in the years to come.” The inaugural winner of the Hilda Janzen Memorial Award is Jessie Magalios, whose commitment to feminism and feminist activism through her involvement with a variety of different initiatives, as well as her incredible energy and enthusiasm in the face of a number of significant barriers, very much impressed the awards committee.
Left to right: Professor Fiona Kelly, Professor Susan Boyd, Charlotte Wall, Jessie Magalios, donor Sonya Wall, Professor Emma Cunliffe
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Faculty
M A TT E R S
P U BL I C ATI O N S
Fiona Kelly Transforming Law’s Family: The Legal Recognition of
Recently Published books BY UBC Law faculty
Planned Lesbian Motherhood (UBC Press, 2011).
Joel Bakan Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (Penguin, 2011). Emma Cunliffe Murder, Medicine and Motherhood (Hart Publishing, 2011). Shi-Ling Hsu The Case for a Carbon Tax: Getting Past Our Hang-ups
Shigenori Matsui The Constitution of Japan: A Contextual Analysis (Hart Publishing, 2010). Robert K. Paterson Cultural Law: International, Comparative and Indigenous co-authored with James A.R. Nafziger and Alison Dundes Renteln (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
to Effective Climate Policy (Island Press, 2011).
2 0 1 0 /2 0 1 1 P ublicat ion s
Sexualities and Law, 2011); “Joint Custody and Guardianship in the
Natasha A. Affolder “Rethinking Environmental Contracting”
British Columbia Courts: Not a Cautious Approach” (Canadian
(Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, 2010).
Family Law Quarterly, 2010); “BC’s proposed guardianship concept
Janine Benedet “The Sexual Assault of Intoxicated Women” (Canadian Journal of Women in the Law, 2011). Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant “R. v. A. (J.): Confusing Unconsciousness with Autonomy” (Criminal Reports, 2010). Joost Blom “The Private International Law of Intellectual Property” (Canadian Intellectual Property Review, 2010). Joost Blom & Elizabeth Edinger “Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases, Text and Materials” (2010). Mary Anne Bobinski (co-authored with Olson R., Hung G., Goddard K.) “Prospective Evaluation of Legal Difficulties and Quality of Life in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer,” (56 Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2011). Susan Boyd “Relocation, Indeterminacy, and Burden of Proof: Lessons from Canada” (Child and Family Law Quarterly, 2011); “Motherhood and Autonomy in a Shared Parenting Climate” (Gender,
raises red flags” (The Lawyers Weekly, 2010). Christine Boyle “R. v. Sinclair: A Comparatively Disappointing Decision on the Right to Counsel” (Criminal Reports, 2010). Gordon Christie “Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Canada’s Far North: The Arctic and Inuit Sovereignty” (South Atlantic Quarterly, 2011). Catherine Dauvergne, “The Growing Culture of Exclusion: Trends in Canadian Refugee Exclusions” co-authored with Asha Kaushal (International Journal of Refugee Law, 2011). Ronald Davis “Is Your Defined-Benefit Pension Guaranteed?: Funding Rules, Insolvency Law and Pension Insurance” (IRPP Study, 2011). David Duff “Charities and Terrorist Financing” (University of Toronto Law Journal, 2011); “SCC gets opportunity to clarify GAAR” (Lawyers Weekly, 2011).
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Benjamin Goold “A Tainted Trade? Moral Ambivalence
James Stewart “Corporate War Crimes: Prosecuting Pillage of
and Legitimation Work in the Private Security Industry” co-authored
Natural Resources” (Open Society Foundations, 2010).
with Angélica Thumala & Ian Loader (The British Journal of Sociology, 2011).
Margot Young “Women’s Work and a Guaranteed Income” (The Legal Tender of Gender: Welfare, Law and the Regulation of Women’s
Isabel Grant “Desperate Measures: Rationalizing the Crime of
Poverty, 2010); “Unequal to the Task: ’Kapp’ing the Substantive
Infanticide” (Canadian Criminal Law Review, 2010).
Potential of Section 15” (Supreme Court Law Review, 2d, 2010).
Fiona Kelly “An Alternative Conception: The Legality of Home Insemination Under Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act” (Canadian Journal of Family Law, 2010); “De-Anonymising Sperm Donors in Canada: Some Doubts and Directions” co-authored
2010/2011 GUEST LECTURES, PANELISTS, PReS ENTATI ONS, CONFERENCES & WORKS HOPS
by Angela Cameron and Vanessa Gruben (Canadian Journal of Family
Mary Anne Bobinski spoke at the North American Outgames in
Law, 2010).
July on Human Rights Law: Where we’ve been; where we are,
Mary Liston “Witnessing Arbitrariness: Roncarelli v. Duplessis Fifty Years On” (McGill Law Journal, 2010); “The Rule of Law” (Encyclopedia of Political Science, 2010). Benjamin Perrin “Trafficking in Persons & Transit Countries: A Canada-US Case Study in Global Perspective” (Trends in Organized Crime, 2011).
where we need to be. At the Estate Planning Council in May, she presented on Reproductive Technology in Estate Planning. In Buenos Aires, Argentina at the International Association of Law Schools Conference in April, she spoke on Symbols and Substance in Curricular Reform. Professor Susan Boyd gave a presentation in February to the law clerks at the British Columbia Supreme Court and Court of Appeal
Benjamin Richardson “Being Virtuous and Prosperous: SRI’s
on “Joint Custody and Joint Guardianship in the British Columbia
Conflicting Goals” co-authored with Wes Cragg (Journal of Business
Courts”; Professor Boyd also facilitated a conference, Judging
and Ethics, 2011); “Whatever Happened to Canadian Environmental
Women: Aging, Mental Health and Culture, where Professor Claire
Law?” co-authored with Stephan Wood and Georgia Tanner
Young presented on the panel Pensions, Family Law, and Economic
(Ecology Law Quarterly, 2011); “From Fiduciary Duties to Fiduciary
Security for Older Women; In November, Professor Boyd held
Relationships for Socially Responsible Investing: Responding to the
a lecture entitled “What Does Autonomy Mean for Mothers?” at
Will of Beneficiaries” (Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment,
the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies.
2011); “German Socially Responsible Investment: Barriers and
Opportunities” co-authored by Friederike Johanna (German Law Journal, 2011).
Professor Christine Boyle gave a presentation on “The Bedford decision and the decriminalization of prostitution” at the Law Union of Ontario Conference, Winter of Our Discontent: Let the
Anthony Sheppard “Electronic Records and the Law of Evidence in Canada: The Uniform Electronic Evidence Act Twelve Years Later” co-authored with Luciana Duranti and Corinne Rogers (Archivaria, 2010) .
Right Not Prevail, in February in Toronto. Professor Emma Cunliffe was invited by the education committee of the BC Supreme Court to deliver a presentation on the topic of “Plausibility Assessment and Expert Evidence.” This presentation was part of the first session at the annual Supreme Court of British Columbia Education Seminar, held in early November in Vancouver.
Christine Boyle
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James Stewart
David Duff
Professor David Duff presented a paper on “Tax Treaty Case Law
Controls” at the American Branch of the International Law
around the Globe” in Vienna in May, at the Institute for Austrian
Association’s Weekend West: 2021: International Law Ten Years
and International Tax Law in the Vienna University of Economics and
From Now meeting in Los Angeles in February.
Business; Professor Duff presented his paper “Tax Treaty Shopping: A Comparative Evaluation” at the James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in March.
Professor Margot Young gave a lecture titled “Marking 25 years of Equality Jurisprudence: Section 15 of the Charter — has it been all we hoped it would be?” at the Centre for Constitutional Studies,
Professor Robin Elliot gave a presentation in February to the law
University of Alberta in November; She also presented at the
clerks at the BC Supreme Court and BC Court of Appeal on recent
Women’s Economic Security Conference at the Vancouver Public
developments in the law of Canadian federalism.
Library in December.
Professor Cristie Ford provided the “Annual Update of Developments in Administrative Law” for the CLE Immigration Law program in December. She also attended the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in San Francisco in January, where she was a panelist at the annual Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Breakfast. Professor Cristie Ford presented a paper entitled “Prospects for Scalability? Relationships and Uncertainty
GRANTS & AWARDS Professor David Duff was the 2011 recipient of the annual CALT (Canadian Association of Law Teachers) Prize for Academic Excellence, which honours exceptional contribution to research and law teaching by a Canadian law teacher in mid-career.
in Responsive Financial Regulation” at the Annual Meeting of the
Professor Doug Harris received the biannual Saywell Prize for
US Law and Society Association in San Francisco in June. She
Constitutional Legal History in Toronto from the Osgoode Society for
also acted as chair and discussant on a panel entitled “Comparative
Canadian Legal History. The prize, named in honour of Professor Jack
Administrative Law: Judicial Review,” which considers a transnational
Saywell, recognizes Professor Harris’s book, Landing Native Fisheries,
experience with a range of judicial review systems, including
as the “best book in Canadian legal history, published in 2009 or
specialized administrative courts; Professor Ford presented a paper
2010, that makes an important contribution to an understanding of
titled “Macro and Micro Effects on Flexible Regulation” at the AALS
the constitution and/or federalism.”
(Association of American Law Schools) Section on Financial Institutions and Consumer Financial Services Breakfast Round Table in January; In February, Professor Ford presented a paper titled “Meta-Regulation and Risk Regulation” for the 2010–2011 Speakers’ Series at the Faculte de Droit, Université de Montréal.
The Walter Owen Book Prize was awarded by the Foundation for Legal Research to The Law of Climate Change in Canada, which includes a chapter co-authored by Professor Shi-Ling Hsu. The Walter Owen Book Prize is designed to recognize excellent legal writing and to reward outstanding new contributions to
Professor Douglas Harris held a seminar on “Property Law and
Canadian legal literature that enhance the quality of legal research
the City” at the University of Hong Kong in April. The seminar
in this country.
was presented by the Asian Institute of International Finance Law and the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.
Professor Benjamin Perrin received a 2011 Distinguished Academic Award from the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of
Professor Nikos Harris was a speaker at the British Columbia Civil
British Columbia (CUFA BC). Perrin received the Early in Career Award,
Liberties Association December 2010 Conference on recent
sponsored by Scotiabank, on April 27 at a Gala hosted at the Law
constitutional issues in criminal law. Professor Harris spoke about
Courts Inn. The award recognizes outstanding contributions made by
obtaining unique remedies under sections 7 and 24(1) of the
scholars at relatively early stages in their careers that have an impact
Charter, an area of growing importance due to the narrowing scope
beyond the academic community.
of a number of traditional Charter rights of the accused.
Professor Benjamin Richardson was the successful co-recipient of a
Professor Mary Liston presented a paper “Prospects and Problems
$1 million SSHRC Community-University Research Alliance (CURA)
for Hybrid Models of Oversight: The Case of British Columbia’s
award for a five-year project called “Responsible Investing Initiative.”
Representative for Children and Youth” at a conference The Nature of Inquisitorial Processes in Administrative Regimes: Global Perspectives in May at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor.
Professor Janis Sarra and Assistant Professor James Stewart received significant SSHRC funding grants for upcoming research projects. Professor Sarra will use her grant to develop research
Professor Robert Paterson held a lecture entitled “Repatriation
on “High Level Principles, On the Ground Change: Oversight of
of Toi Moko from French Museums” at Auckland University
the Structured Financial Product Risk in Global Financial Markets.”
Faculty of Law in November; Professor Paterson presented a paper
James Stewart will be researching “Commerce, Atrocity and
entitled “Moving Culture: The Future of Cultural Property Export
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Wesley Pue
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Benjamin Perrin
The Foundation for Legal Research awarded grants to the
Professor Benjamin Goold was appointed to the BC Privacy
following faculty members:
Commissioner’s External Advisory Board. The purpose of the board
Susan Boyd (with co-applicant Janis Sarra), “Competing Notions of Fairness, a Principled Approach to the Intersection between Insolvency Law and Family Law in Canada”
is to assist the Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham in identifying emerging technical, legal and social issues relating to privacy and access to information, and to bring information from various constituency groups concerning the administration of
Catherine Dauvergne (with co-applicant grad student
the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and
Sarah Marsden), “Temporary Migrants Legal Research Project:
the Personal Information Protection Act.
British Columbia” David Duff, “Updates and Revisions to Canadian Income Tax Law” Robin Elliot, QC, “Making Sense of the Purposes Underlying Freedom of Expression” Isabel Grant (with co-applicant Janine Benedet), “The Capacity to Testify of Sexual Assault Complainants with Mental Disabilities”
Professor Benjamin Perrin helped launch a national online course on Human Trafficking: “Human Trafficking: Canada is Not Immune.” It is a free online training program for Canadian front-line service providers on how to recognize, protect and assist a person who may have been trafficked. Professor Perrin was part of the advisory committee for this initiative and his research is featured in both the written and video course materials. In November, Professor Perrin met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper as well as Attorney General and Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson to make the case for a national
OTHER NEWS Dean Mary Anne Bobinski was elected to the Board of the International Association of Law Schools at the Conference on Teaching, Legal Education and Strategic Planning in Buenos Aires, Argentina last month. She also presented at the conference on “Symbols and Substance in Curricular Reform in the United States and Canada.”
action plan to combat human trafficking in Canada. UBC Law Professor Wesley Pue was appointed Provost and
Vice Principal of UBC’s Okanagan campus. The UBC Board of Governors approved Pue’s appointment for a five-year term effective July 1, 2011. Professor James Stewart published a manual with legal guidelines for prosecuting corporations for the illegal exploitation of natural resources. The manual was launched in October at an international conference on the issue of corporate liability for pillaging natural resources. Held in the Hague, Netherlands, the conference was co-sponsored by UBC Faculty of Law and spearheaded by Professor Stewart.
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Student
MATTERS
Student Orientation Day
UBC Law attracts some of the best law students in
Canada, many of whom are recognized with academic scholarships, awards and prizes. In addition, students enjoy a vibrant social network of activities and events. The following is a sample of some of our students’ recent accomplishments.
2010 – 2011 Awards
The 2011 fellowship recipients
who has demonstrated
colleague and teacher, and is
and Accomplishments
are Kathleen Addison and
academic excellence.
awarded for excellence in
Auriol Gurner Young
Maureen Gillis.
Memorial Award
The 2011 Auriol Gurner Young Memorial Award went to Bree Makohn and Patricia Barkaskas. This award recognizes JD students who have made significant contributions to feminism and the law school through academic achievement, volunteer work, community activism, or work with a feminist organization. Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Research Fellowship
Each summer, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP provides fellowships for two first-year law students to work with a faculty member for four months.
Isabel Henkelman, recipient of the HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship
HSBC Emerging Leader
Law Society Gold Medal Award
student research on issues involving feminist and intersectional analysis.
Scholarship
Kate Bond was presented
Isabel Henkelman received
with this prestigious and highly
Raymond G. Herbert
one of three $5,000
coveted medal, which is
Award
scholarships granted each year
awarded each year to a JD
Shirley Smiley is the recipient
to three undergraduate
student who has maintained
of this prestigious award
UBC students with outstanding
the highest cumulative
that honours the best all-round
academic performance who
grade point average over the
graduating student in the
have also demonstrated a
three years of law school.
Faculty of Law.
commitment to leadership and community involvement.
Marlee G. Kline
UBC Research Abroad
Essay Prize
Travel Grant
Lawson Lundell LLP
Katherine A.H. Mulherin was
Laura DeVries and Lisa
Entrance Scholarship
awarded the 2011 Marlee G.
Jorgenson are the recipients of
Daniel Draht is the recipient of the $15,000 entrance
Kline Essay Prize for her paper, “A Role for Intersectionality?
the newly funded UBC Research Abroad Travel Grant, which
scholarship offered by Lawson
Critique and Reform of
gives students the opportunity
Lundell LLP. The scholarship is
Advertising Regulation in
to work on groundbreaking
awarded to a student entering
Canada.” The award honours
research under the leadership
the first year of the JD program
Marlee Kline, former
of faculty members.
Shirley Smiley, recipient of the Raymond G. Herbert Award
Gavin Hume, QC, President of the Law Society and JD graduate Kate Bond
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2 0 1 0 – 2 0 1 1 M oo t s
COACHES:
Sebastian Anderson,
Sopinka Cup Trial Advocacy
Paul Fairweather, Rod Germaine,
Competition
Joan Gordon, Bruce Grist,
Sponsored by The American
John Hall, Don Jordan, QC, Stan
possible, and congratulations to all for another
College of Trial Lawyers;
Lanyon, QC, Wayne Moore, Julie
Administered by
successful season.
Nichols, Karen Nordlinger, QC
The Advocates’ Society
and Mike Wagner
STUDENTS:
Special thanks to the law firms and individuals who make our participation in these competitions
Aboriginal
Fraser Milner Casgrain
Kawaskimhon Moot
Gale Cup Moot
Hosted by UBC Law
TEAM:
This moot was generously
MacKinnon, Sascha Paruk and
sponsored by Legal Services
Aimee Schalles
Green & Mutala
Society, Pape Salter Teillet,
F A C U LT Y A D V I S O R S :
TEAM:
Gowlings, the New Relationship
Janine Benedet and Isabel Grant
Rob Davis and Katy Allen
Trust Fund and the Vancouver
Finished third overall
ADVISORS:
Aboriginal Child and Family
and received first-place Peter
Jennifer Marles
Services Society
Cory factum prize for
and Matthew Canzer
UBC TEAM:
Patricia
Megan McConnell, Thomas Milne, Brent Boisvert, Joyce Bolton, Kyla Lee and Dana-Lyn McKenzie Gordon Christie,
Maria Morellato
BC Law Schools
Competitive Moot Sponsored by Davis LLP Nolan Hurlburt,
Michelle Dickie, Nathan Rayan, Morgan Fane and Liam Bath F A C U LT Y A D V I S O R S :
Joost Blom and Liz Edinger COACHES:
Dean Dalke
F A C U LT Y A D V I S O R : COACHES:
David Duff
Douglas Matthew
and Matt Williams Winners of the award for best respondent’s factum
Association and Mike Tammen
TEAM:
Scott Marescaux,
TEAM:
Keegan Macintosh,
Isabel Henkelman, Simon
Sara Hopkins, Cindy Zhang,
Charles and Vanessa Lunday
David Jiang, Gordon Behan,
and Kerry Burgi COACHES:
Patti Tomasson and
Richard Cairns, QC Western Canada Trial Competition Sponsored by Professor Emeritus Jim MacIntyre, QC and Russ Chamberlain, QC TEAM:
Kerry Burgi and
Keegan MacIntosh F A C U LT Y C O O R D I N AT O R :
Nikos Harris COACHES:
Patti Tomasson,
Karima Andani and Richard Cairns, QC Second place
Kerry Burgi, Jake Cabott and
Wilson Moot
Stewart, Ian Townsend-Gault
Davin Garg
Sponsored by Heenan Blaikie LLP
and Karin Mickelson
COACHES:
James
Laskin Moot Sponsored by McCarthy Tétrault LLP TEAM:
Dani Bryant, Chris Carta,
Savitri Gordian, Caleigh Macdonald and Servane Phillips F A C U LT Y A D V I S O R S :
Bill Black
and Mary Liston
Matthew Dinsdale Labour Arbitration Moot Sponsored by Harris & Company and Victory Square Law Office TEAM:
Michelle Randall and
Katie Cobban (student coach: Sara Malkin) ADVISORS:
Jim MacIntyre, QC
and Ryan Anderson
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Peter Burns Mock
Martineau DuMoulin
performance
Timothy Luk and Alia Somji
Thomas Bailey,
Sponsored by Crown Counsel
Sponsored by Thorsteinssons LLP Jeremie Beitel, Evan Griffith,
David Peltier,
Sponsored by Fasken
Third place for overall
Michael Alexis,
Sponsored by Owen Wiggs
Competition
Donald Bowman Tax Moot TEAM:
Property Moot
Jessup International Moot
F A C U LT Y A D V I S O R S :
and Mandell Pinder
TEAM:
Alex Boland, Emily
the appellant’s factum
Barkaskas, Alison Leong,
COACHES:
Oxford Intellectual
Keegan Macintosh
Joe Doyle, Patti
TEAM:
Lisa Andrews,
Tomasson, Kasandra Cronin,
Jared Bachynski, Angela Crimeni,
Michelle Peacock, Anita Ghatak,
Jessica Fletcher
Richard Fowler, Geordie Proulx
and Graeme Hooper
and Bonnie Craig
F A C U LT Y A D V I S O R S :
F A C U LT Y C O O R D I N AT O R :
Young and Robin Elliot, QC
Margot
Nikos Harris D O W N T O W N C O O R D I N AT O R :
Karima Andani
Moot Winners Keegan Macintosh (left) and Kerry Burgi (right)
This year, 18 UBC law students secured a 2012–2013 judicial clerkship. Congratulations to all of these students for landing one of the most prestigious and competitive employment opportunities available to recent graduates. Supreme Court
BC Supreme Court
of Canada
Katy Allen (Vancouver)
Emily MacKinnon
Jordan Bank (3L)
This is the second year in a
Alex Boland
row that a UBC Law student
Ariel Bultz (New Westminster)
has secured a clerkship
Angela Crimeni
with the Chief Justice of the
James Cruess
Federal Court
Supreme Court of Canada.
Michael Manhas
of Canada
Sascha Paruk
Alison Brown (3L)
BC Court of Appeal
Left to right: Ariel Bultz, Emily MacKinnon, Angela Crimeni, David Andrews, Michelle Dickie, James Cruess, Sascha Paruk
Michelle Chantal Dickie
David Andrews
Alberta Court of Appeal
Jessica Fletcher
Kelli McAllister
Nunavut Court
Graeme Hooper
of Justice
Kathleen McConchie
Lisa Nevens (3L) (2011–2012)
Jessie Meikle-Kahs (3L)
M e s s a g e from L aw S t u d en t s ’ Soc i e t y P re s i d en t M ar t i n M cGre g or It is a tradition for the President
two locations, professors
The LSS has a spacious, new
The delight in the students’ eyes
of the Law Students’ Society
in three other locations, and
home in the George F. Curtis
as we sit in the state-of-the-art
(LSS) to contribute a note, either
administration and other
Dean’s and Student
classrooms would not have
poetry or prose, to the UBC
organizations in yet two more
Government Suite, with (trike)
been possible without the
Law Alumni Magazine. I write
different locations.
storage space, a student
support of the Vancouver legal
lounge, a dedicated Clubs
community, and especially of
room and a dedicated LSS
the UBC Law alumni. On behalf
office space. The Suite honours
of the fortunate group to be
Dean Curtis’s dedication to
the first to inhabit Allard Hall,
this, though, not simply with duty-bound hands; I write this with hands that seek to express the excitement that is in the air this September, as the UBC Law community moves into its new home, Allard Hall.
The excitement is palpable as you walk into the bright new building. It comes not only from the light that streams through the many windows — but also from having every part of the UBC Law community
Gone are the days of studying
together under one roof:
under blankets in the old
students, faculty, administration,
bunker, either in classrooms or
staff, research centres,
in the library. Gone are the
journals and, of course,
days of “Swing Space”
student organizations.
separation, with classes in
UBC Law, his achievements, his
we thank you. And as LSS
vision and his emphasis on
President, I assure you that we
the close connections between
look back as well as forward,
faculty and students. As
and that many of the old
individual students and student
traditions of UBC Law will play
clubs begin to take advantage
a key role as we rebuild the
of all that this space offers,
UBC Law community in our new
the LSS strives to continue
home in Allard Hall.
building and emphasizing that close connection.
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Alma M ATT E R S
Here we highlight events, activities and achievements of our more than 10,000 alumni. If you have something that you’d like us to include, email us at communications@law.ubc.ca.
Awar d s and Dis t inct ion s Kenneth Bagshaw (’64) was
Former RCMP Commissioner
Nicole Garton-Jones (’00)
Student of the Year, which
named General Counsel of the
Beverley Busson (’90) was
was named one of 2010’s
recognizes a student member’s
Year at the Canadian General
made an Honorary Fellow at
Top Forty Under 40 by
contribution to the CBA.
Counsel Awards for his work
Okanagan College.
Business in Vancouver.
Jennifer Conkie (’86) was
Anne Giardini, QC (’84) was
appointed as Commissioner
awarded the CBABC Equality
selected as one of the Top 25
of the Missing Women
as Chief Legal Officer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). J.P. Boyd (’99) was awarded the CBABC Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award.
Kenneth Bagshaw
Anne Giardini, QC
and Diversity Award. Leonard Doust (’66) was awarded the CBABC President’s Medal in recognition of his work as Commissioner of The Public Commission on Legal Aid.
Wally Oppal
Wally Oppal (’66) was
Most Influential by Canadian
Commission of Inquiry. He was
Lawyer magazine in August.
also appointed Chancellor
She was also awarded the
of Thompson Rivers University.
Canadian Corporate Counsel Association’s Robert V.A. Jones Award.
Lisa Skakun (’01) was awarded the Association of Women in Finance’s Rising Star PEAK
Rod Holloway (’72) was
Award. Lisa has been Coast
awarded the Public Service
Capital Savings Credit Union’s
Award of Excellence for
General Counsel and Corporate
Exemplary Contribution Under
Secretary since early 2010.
Extraordinary Circumstances by the Public Services Commission.
CBABC Women Law yers Forum Awards
Lisa Lapointe (’86) was
Margaret Ostrowsky, QC (’79)
appointed Chief Coroner with
received the Award of Excellence.
the BC Coroners Service.
Joan Gordon (’83) received
Preston Parsons (’10) was
the Debra Van Ginkel, QC
awarded the CBA National
Mentoring Award.
Edward Rowan-Legg Award for
RECENT APPOINTM ENTS Supreme Court of British Columbia
• Master Robert McDiarmid • The Honourable Trevor Armstrong • The Honourable Murray Blok • The Honourable David Harris • The Honourable Miriam Maisonville
Provincial Court of British Columbia
• The Honourable James MacCarthy • The Honourable Reginald Harris • The Honourable Roderick Sutton • The Honourable Robert Hamilton • The Honourable Marguerite Church British Columbia Court of Appeal
Lisa Skakun (pictured right) accepting the Association of Women in Finance’s Rising Star PEAK Award 40 UBC LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE | Fall 2011
• The Honourable Christopher Hinkson
Far left: UBC Law Alumni Achievement Awards Gala (left to right): Katrina Pacey; Morley Koffman, QC; William Berardino, QC; and Elizabeth M. Vogt Left: UBC Law Alumni Achievement Awards Gala (left to right): Mike Feder; Morley Koffman, QC; and Michael Kalef
E ven t s
UBC Law Alumni
Elizabeth M. Vogt –
Cal gary pre-Stampede
The event was hosted by law
Achievement
Alumni Award of Distinction;
Reception
alumnus, Ed McNally (Class of
Awards Gala
Katrina Pacey –
In July, alumni from all
1951), owner of Big Rock
On Wednesday, April 27, 2011,
Outstanding Young Alumna/
generations gathered at the
Brewery (see “The Road Less
more than 350 alumni and
Alumnus Award;
Glencoe Club in downtown
Travelled” on page 26 for
friends gathered at the Four
Dr. Charles Bourne –
Calgary to catch up with old
his profile).
Seasons Hotel in Vancouver to
Alumni Award for Research
friends and meet new ones.
Alumni, old and new, gather at the Glencoe Club in downtown Calgary
celebrate the outstanding individuals who were honoured with UBC Law Alumni Achievement awards. This year’s recipients are: Morley Koffman, QC – Lifetime Achievement Award; William S. Berardino, QC – Alumni Award of Distinction; Ed McNally is honoured at the Calgary alumni reception
Re Un i on R eports Cla ss of 1949
The Class of ’49 gathered at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club for their 62nd reunion on September 8, 2011. Fond memories and fun stories of their UBC Law experience in the army huts with Dean Curtis were shared. Some came from as far as Grand Forks and Denman Island to spend time with their former classmates. The reunion was organized by Garde and Helen Gardom. Members of the Class of 1949 celebrated their 62nd reunion at the Shaughnessy Golf and Country Club Fall 2011 | UBC LAW ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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Right: A Vancouver Canucks playoff game was the backdrop to the 40th anniversary for the Class of ’71, who gathered at the hospitality suite at Rogers Arena
Class of ’61 gathered at the Point Grey Golf Club to commemorate their 50th reunion
Cla ss of 1961
and humorous stories of
attending a Vancouver Canucks
(limited) fondness as the last
Submitted by Thomas H. Hara, QC
their experiences over the past
playoff game in a hospitality
graduating class who had
The UBC Law Class of ’61
50 years.
suite at Rogers Arena. It was
endured the army huts. Bitter,
held its 50th reunion on September 24 and 25. The reunion came at a very auspicious time, as the official opening of the new school was held the day before our tour of the new facilities. The new school is a marvel of technology and forward thinking in teaching methods. The ’61 classmates were pleased that the great view of the ocean and mountains
This Class produced 16 judges, a co-author of the Supreme Court Rules, an Ambassador to eight countries and Director of Legal Affairs for Canada, the author of the ultimate text on banking and payment, two Coroners, an Order of Canada
an event within an event.
because we also remembered
They reminisced with chats and
the many classmates who had
photos before and after the
not lived to see the day.
game and during intermission. Some classmates had to make a considerable effort to join the reunion, but all who did attend had a great time.
After the ceremony, we went for lunch at what was once the Faculty Club and is now Sage Bistro. After many old stories were exchanged, we went back
and BC, and a host of Queen’s
Class of 1973
to Allard Hall to officially open
Counsels. Needless to say, there
Submitted by the Honourable
the David Brine Class of ’73
were many great stories. The
Justice Grant Burnyeat
Seminar Room. The room is
following Sunday, there was a
For the Class of ’73, the
dedicated to our classmate and
brunch so the group could
official opening of the new
was funded by donations
meet in a more casual setting.
(wonderful!!) law building
from the Class. David’s wife,
After the tour of the school,
All the classmates left with
was a bittersweet event. Sweet,
Robin, his three sons and
the group adjourned to the
renewed sense of collegiality
because the 25 members of
their wives, and one of David’s
Point Grey Golf and Country
and agreed to meet again.
was faithfully preserved.
Club for cocktails, a formal class photograph and dinner. Classmates then took to the mike and told interesting
Cla ss of 1971 Submitted by Terry Hartshorne
On the evening of April 15, 2011, the Class of ’71 celebrated
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the Class who attended the
five grandchildren joined us.
opening on September 23, 2011
A bottle of Scotch was
were dazzled by the new home
produced and those present
and could look back with
toasted in Dave’s memory as we gathered to honour one who had died much too young.
Above: The Class of ’85 celebrated its 25th anniversary at Monk McQueens in October
Right: The Brine Family gathered to officially open the David Brine Class of 1973 Seminar Room. Pictured here from Left to right: won Cameron and his wife Stacy, won Andrew, David’s widow Robin, Andrew’s wife Emily, son Matthew and his wife Lisa and their son Owen.
To see the photographs taken
Cla ss of 1985
current Professor, former Dean,
50-or-so-year-olds singing along,
of David when he became a
Submitted by Lee Sawatzky
and well-regarded member of
although not always on
Master of the Court and when
The UBC Law graduating Class
the UBC Faculty of Law, Joost
key. Emails from some alumni
he became a Judge of the
of ’85 celebrated its 25th
Blom, QC. Although Professor
who were unable to attend
Supreme Court brought back
anniversary on Friday, October
Blom began by threatening
were read, including one from
many memories of our
14, 2011. If you do the math,
to provide a lengthy summary
Turkey. Door prizes were
accomplished classmate.
you will note that the Class
of the book he recently
distributed, with first prize being
of ’85 continues to be
The class composite brought back memories of more hair and thinner bodies. The Class
co-authored with former Dean
a poster-size reprint of the
somewhat tardy when it comes
Peter T. Burns, titled Economic
collected, often-embarrassing
to handing in assignments.
Interests in Canadian Tort
first year student pictures.
Law, he quickly agreed to,
Also, humorous, yet somehow
instead, provide an update
poignant videos from Law
of former faculty members
Revues past were shown to
and to reminisce about
the enjoyment of everyone.
takes great pride in the
Even though this was the
Seminar Room just as it takes
second, somewhat informal
great pride in having produced
reunion of the Class,
the highest number of Masters
innumerable first-time
(5), Provincial Court Judges (14),
procedural mistakes still had
alumni misdeeds.
But the absolute best parts
Supreme Court and Court
to be overcome, not least
The musical entertainment
of the evening were the
of Appeal Judges (13) of any
of which was coming up with
came from a stripped-down
conversations between
UBC Law class as well as
a suitable way to dupe
set by former members of the
long-ago friends that carried
one Dean of the UBC Faculty
unwary alumni into joining
Negligents — Paul Seale on
on well into the starry night.
of Law, one Chief Judge
the planning committee.
of the Provincial Court of BC, and two Treasurers of the Law Society of BC.
The reunion was held at Monk McQueens, which received high marks from all attendees.
guitar, and Howard Mickelson
Adding to the overall goodwill
and Kelly Connell on vocals —
was the mutual admiration
that had the crowd of
for having survived 25 years in the legal business.
The keynote speaker was
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c l a s s notes Keep in touch with your classmates! Send in your updates and news to alumnieditor@law.ubc.ca.
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Stanley Schumacher, QC (’59) continues to practice full time, and celebrated 50 years at the Alberta Bar in 2010. His preferred areas of practice are wills and estates and real estate, but he is happy to assist anyone coming to him with legal problems. Stan is married to Virginia and has two children and four grandchildren.
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Anna Fung, QC (’84) was appointed to the Board of the Vancouver Foundation and the Arts Club Theatre Company. She is also a member of the Organizing Committee for the Canadian Bar Association’s 2012 Canadian Legal Conference, which will be held in Vancouver in August. Jane Shackell, QC (’84) was married on August 6 at the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino.
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Evelyn Ackah (’97) launched her own law firm on December 1, 2010, after many years working with large national law firms. Ackah Business Immigration Law is based in Calgary, Alberta and will also be opening a Vancouver office shortly. Doug Eastwood (’90) was appointed to the Board of Governors of the Justice Institute of British Columbia for a three-year term commencing July 31, 2011. Doug is a litigation counsel with the Ministry of the Attorney General and his practice is heavily focused on public safety issues.
Alexander D.C. Kask (’99) has joined the partnership of Guild Yule LLP, where he has worked since January 2008. His practice includes
J oe S impson
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general insurance law, municipal law, product liability law, advocacy before administrative tribunals, and personal injury law. Daniel Moore (’95) received his Certified Specialist (Criminal Law) designation from the Law Society of Upper Canada and continues his practice in Toronto with the law firm Heller, Rubel.
D oug E astwood
Joe Simpson (’93) has been a sole practitioner for the past 14 years, focusing on family law with some real estate conveyancing, wills and estates solicitor work. He currently resides in Duncan, BC with his spouse Penny. Joe is very active locally with Rotary International, which has taken him to Nepal for a school project in a remote Himalayan mountain village. He will return to Nepal for the same project in Spring 2012.
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Veronika Florianova (’08) has opened her own law firm — Yaletown Law Corporation, in downtown Vancouver. She is a general solicitor, and her work consists of real estate law, family law, business law, wills and estates, and immigration law.
Scott T. Johnston (’00) has joined Campbell, Burton & McMullan LLP after 10 years of experience as a corporate/commercial and real estate solicitor in the Fraser Valley. Lisa Kerr (’05) is currently working on a doctorate in law at New York University with a focus on courts and criminal punishment. In 2009, Lisa completed a Master’s in Law at NYU and worked as a research assistant to David Garland on his critically acclaimed book, Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Lisa then returned to practice in Canada as a staff lawyer at Prisoners’ Legal Services in Abbotsford. Lisa hopes to complete her dissertation by 2013. Brynne Redford (’06) After articling and being called to the bar, Brynne obtained her Master in Public Health from Simon Fraser University in 2009. Her thesis considered the relationship between the criminal justice and health systems, looking at the potential public health benefits of Vancouver’s Drug Treatment Court.
Since 2010, she has been employed as a Child and Youth Advocate with the Representative for Children and Youth, an independent public body that works with children and youth involved with government services, including child protection, youth justice, mental health and addiction, and services for children and youth with special needs. Ellen Schlesinger (’02) is in her final stages of completing her Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Vancouver. She is currently researching the career transitions of non-practicing female lawyers for her thesis while seeing clients in private practice in Vancouver. Andrey Schmidt (’03) practiced securities law at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin from 2004 to 2010, and is now a financial advisor. Together with long-time friend Michael Armstrong, Andrey formed Armstrong Schmidt Investment based out of Vancouver.
Elin Sigurdson (’05) graduated with her Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in May 2011 and is now an associate at the Vancouver office of Janes Freedman Kyle where she is practicing in the area of Aboriginal law. Warren Smith (’03) was recently elected Vice President of the Make-A-Wish Foundation (BC & Yukon). He previously served as a board member with the organization for three years and as a volunteer for 10 years.
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Peter Doelman (’10) is currently living in Calgary and working as a securities lawyer for Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP.
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In Memoriam
K AT H E R I N E J . H E L L E R - KITTY ( ’ 7 6 ) — distinguished
GI L L I A N PAT R I C I A W A L L A C E , Q C ( ’ 7 4 ) passed away
Vancouver labour lawyer, patron of the arts and active member
peacefully on March 1, 2011, at the age of 62.
of her community — passed away on January 20, 2011, at the age of 67.
Born in Victoria, Ms. Wallace studied at the University of Toronto before obtaining her law degree from UBC. She articled in Vancouver
Ms. Heller-Kitty completed her undergraduate studies at Swarthmore
and clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada before beginning a
and received her Master’s degree in International Relations from
career with the Department of Justice in Ottawa, where she played a
the University of Toronto before she was conferred an LLB from
significant role in public law issues and particularly in developing
UBC. Her distinguished career included five years with the Canadian
freedom of information and privacy legislation. She returned home to
Foreign Service and clerkship under the Honourable Chief Justice
Victoria in 1985 and there joined the BC Ministry of the Attorney
John Farris of the BC Court of Appeal. She then specialized in labour
General, where she capped her career as Deputy Attorney General
law and became a partner at Russell & DuMoulin (Fasken Martineau
for Aboriginal Affairs and Health.
DuMoulin) and later at Owen Bird. In 2005, she established her own practice, working in the area of human-rights complaints and harassment investigations. Beyond the legal profession, Ms. Heller-Kitty made significant contributions to art and culture in British Columbia and Canada; served on the boards of the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society; and shared her time, energy and expertise with numerous not-for-profit community organizations.
Former BC Attorney General and West Vancouver councillor A L L A N W I L L I A M S ( ’ 5 0 ) died on March 1, 2011, at the
age of 88. Before obtaining his law degree, Mr. Williams served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1941 to 1945. He was elected as West Vancouver Parks and Recreation Commissioner in 1959 and then West Vancouver councillor in 1966. In 1967, he was elected for the first time to the BC Legislative Assembly as the Liberal (then Social Credit) MLA for the West Vancouver – Howe Sound riding.
N E L S O N M Y L E S L O W E ( ’ 5 1 ) passed away peacefully in
He served as the BC Minister of Labour and Attorney General from
Vancouver on January 13, 2011, at the age of 88. Mr. Lowe, a World
1976 to 1983 and also spent time as the minister responsible for
War II Navy veteran, enrolled in Loyola College and McGill University
native affairs.
after his military service. He then transferred to UBC to complete his law degree and practiced law in Vancouver thereafter.
In legislature, Mr. Williams came to be known for his wit and skills in debate. Outside the legislative assembly, he also served on West Vancouver’s finance committee, the Lower Mainland treaty advisory
L IIS A S P O O R ( ’ 0 4 ) passed away after an extended period of
committee, the North Shore substance abuse task force and the
illness on March 19, 2011, at the age of 47.
North Shore emergency management office.
Prior to obtaining her law degree from UBC, Ms. Spoor was a respected and valued union representative at BCTel/TELUS. She was called to the bar in 2005 and began practice with the Labour, Employment and Human Rights group at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin before joining Roper Greyell in 2006. Over her brief legal career, she also authored various publications on human rights, privacy and employment law. At UBC, Ms. Spoor is remembered for her invaluable contributions as member of the Program on Dispute Resolution. She also worked with Professors Philip Bryden and William Black on their research in human rights disputes, won the UBC Mediation Advocacy Moot and was a member of the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team.
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Closing A R G U M E N TS! A condensed version of Peter A. Allard’s Speech from the Official Opening Ceremony at Allard Hall — September 23, 2011
Over 40 years ago I used to
And that is why I am here;
and banks accepted securities
or who have steadfastly
hitchhike, or sometimes take
to help UBC Law and its
documents knowing that
promoted human rights
the bus, to UBC Law School
students and faculty carry on.
they were not “Triple A” but
to champion a much more
rather junk bond status, or
stable and sustainable
in fact worthless.
long-term democracy.
from 10th & Alma every day.
Our profession has more
I had no idea that the mystery
impact on our society than any
of the law and its impact
other. When we do our job
Ordinary people now suffer
To this end, in addition to my
on society would become so
well, we see that the Rule of
terribly as a result of
gift to the Law School, I have
ingrained in my psyche
Law is upheld and we protect
regulatory bodies being
committed to fund the creation
and change my life from that
our clients, our neighbours
gutted and silenced.
of an annual “Allard Prize for
point on.
and fellow citizens against the
On looking back over my many years in law, there was
vagaries of unchecked abuses of power and corruption.
Equity losses in homes, businesses and pension funds
International Integrity”. The prize will each year
have hurt nearly everyone
highlight one or more
no more important class
If we didn’t do this, day in
in our nation and around the
individuals or groups who
in my mind, than the first-year
and day out, we would lose
world to a degree never
have struggled to enforce
course in ethics.
our freedom. It is more than
before seen in my lifetime.
the Rule of Law so that basic
The UBC professors who dedicated their lives in decades past (and in some cases still do) to teaching the law
eternal vigilance that is the price of freedom, but a strong and moral judicial activism to enforce these concepts.
There were many lawyers, as well as individuals
human rights can triumph over abuses and corruption.
and organizations who
I would like to pay tribute
fought for responsible
to those who worked
will always be with me —
And if we don’t do this the
corporate governance and
collaboratively and supportively
characters and scholars such as
right way, we will not sustain
reasonable regulation,
to help create and build this
Dean Curtis, Bertie McClean,
long-term growth and stability
but it wasn’t enough.
Charles Bourne, Tony Sheppard
for our nation and our fellow
and many others who inspired
world citizens.
me and my fellow students with their deep understanding of their respective specialty in law.
The small group of lawyers who did speak up were
I do worry. Over the past
drowned out by those who
decade I have noticed that
put profit before principle.
legal checks and balances have sometimes “flown out the
professors, colleagues, clients, friends and advisors; my long-time personal secretary Dennie Flynn; Bob Lee, who
special talent.
steadfastly encouraged this
window” with lawyers losing
my mind that these dedicated
sight of their privileged role
And this talent can be a part
professors sacrificed their
in society and their duty
of the process to restore
time and effort for the love
to uphold the Rule of Law.
accountability and transparency
I think sometimes lawyers are
my life, especially my
But every person here has
There is no question in
of teaching.
new building, all the people who have helped me through
to our fragile democracies.
donation; President Stephen Toope, Dean Mary Anne Bobinski, Heather McCaw, Kari Streelasky, Rob King, Tom Bell and Geoff Lyster; my
But they also knew that it
willfully blind or regrettably,
It is my belief that UBC Law
father whose motto was “It is
was the only way that the
even complicit, in the
at Allard Hall could be pivotal
not how far I walked, it is
lifeblood of transparency,
short-term gains and greed
each year in recognizing
how many lives I touched
ethics and justice for all would
of their clients versus
and spotlighting one or
along the way” and finally, my
be carried forward by the
long-term growth and stability.
young generation sitting in front of them.
We only have to look at what happened in 2008. It was a time when rating
more individuals and/or
mother whose indomitable
organizations internationally
spirit, commitment and social
who have struggled to
conscience taught me and my
overcome the abuse of power
siblings the difference between right and wrong.
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Allard and Company
PC, CC, QC, LLD
Robin Brine
Alma Mater Society of UBC
Canada Life Assurance
Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP
Arnold and Audrey
Company
The Hon Justice
Armstrong
Canadian Bar Association,
Grant D Burnyeat
S Bradley Armstrong
British Columbia Branch
John K Campbell
Theresa Arsenault, QC
CapServCo
Canadian Association
The Honourable Jacob
Emily Chan
Vancouver Foundation
$100,000 and Up Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
of Insolvency
Austin, PC, QC, OBC
J Stephen Cheng
$500,000 and Up
Farris Vaughan Wills &
and Restructuring
AWF Association of Women
Arthur L Close, QC
Helen and Tookie Angus
Murphy LLP
Professionals
in Finance
John Coates, QC
Tom and Elizabeth Cantell
The Hon Justice Risa Levine
Tom and Elizabeth Cantell
Franklin T Bailey
Gregory H Cockrill
Clark Wilson LLP
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Fasken Martineau
Thomas W Bailey
The Hon Justice
Korea Foundation
Open Society Institute
DuMoulin LLP
David R Bain
Bruce I Cohen
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Sue Paish, QC
The Foundation for
Leah Ballantyne
The Honourable
Ronald N Stern
Larry Patzer
Legal Research
Dr C Jane Banfield
Ross D Collver, QC
UBC Law Students’ Society
Ronald N Stern
Gowling Lafleur
Robert Banno
William Cottick
Estate of Anne
The Wesik Family
Henderson LLP
C Geoff Baragar
Lawrence Coulter
Heenan Blaikie LLP
The Hon C Cunliffe Barnett
Robert and Kathryn
Insolvency Institute
Brian A Barrington-Foote
Crawford
of Canada
The Hon Chief Justice
Credit Union Foundation
Joanne Lysyk
R J Bauman
of BC
Prof James MacIntyre, QC
Don and Satoko Bell
Dr Michael Curry
Brenda and David McLean,
Eric Belli-Bivar
Davies Ward Phillips &
OBC, LLD
Arthur Bensler
Vineberg LLP
McQuarrie Hunter LLP
Richard E Bereti
Robert F Dawson
The Prosecution Service of
Dr Thomas Rodney Berger,
The Hon Judge
British Columbia
OC, OBC, QC
Pedro de Couto
Alan Ross
William Black
Karen Dickson and
Singleton Urquhart LLP
Prof Joost Blom, QC
Martin MacLachlan
Stikeman Elliott LLP
Boale Wood &
Thomas E Dinsley
The Strother Family
Company Ltd
Mark Dohlen
Teslin Mines Ltd
Dean Mary Anne Bobinski
Owen Dolan, QC
Thornton Grout
and Family
Gerald Donegan, QC
Finnigan LLP
Scott Bodie and Patty Dawn
M Julie Donegan
Randy Zien and
Graham and Family
Telmo dos Santos
Shelley Tratch
Dr Charles B Bourne
James A Doyle
Margaret Uphill The Wesik Family
$25,000 and Up Anonymous
$250,000 and Up
Stanley M Beck, QC
Anonymous
Blake Cassels &
Charles Diamond and
Graydon LLP
Family
Canadian National
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Railway Company
John Grot
Clark Wilson LLP
Prof James MacIntyre, QC
Michael B C Davies
Open Society Institute
Davis LLP
Sangra Moller LLP
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
TSX & TSX Venture Exchange
Estate of David A Freeman Jawl Foundation Law Students’ Society Lawson Lundell LLP Maytree Foundation Mollie Massie and Hein Poulus, QC Richards Buell Sutton LLP
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John Eckersley
Edwards Kenny & Bray LLP
Fraser Hodge and Family
MacDonald & Company
Lisa A Peters
Alan Treleaven
Colin Emslie
Roderick H G Holloway
MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP
Edward S Pipella, QC and
Trial Lawyers Association of
Virginia A Engel, QC
The Hon Sherman W Hood
Roddy MacKenzie
Lucille Pipella
British Columbia
J Thomas English, QC
The Hon Robert B Hunter, QC
Donald MacWilliam
Leon J Plotkins
Frank Tsai
Ernst & Young LLP
The Hon Robert B and
Robert Mair, QC
Alexander and Maria
Donna M Turko
Garth M Evans
Cory Hutchison
The Hon Justice
Cynthia Poblador
Tyze Personal Networks
Keith D Evans
The Hon Frank Iacobucci,
Miriam A Maisonville
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Katherine U
Brian Facey
CC, QC, LLD
John S C Mao
Thomas William Pue and
Vancity Savings Credit
David and Lisa Farrell
Dr Frederick Irvine
Janice Loomer Margolis
Deborah (Chawner) Pue
Union
Dean Feltham
Jawl & Bundon
and Simon Margolis
Pushor Mitchell LLP
Vancouver Aboriginal
Craig and Shelley Ferris
Jenkins Marzban Logan LLP
Dr Bonnie Massing
Peter Ridout
Child and Family
Kerry-Lynne D Findlay, QC
Barry Joe
Ralph A May
David Robertson
Services Society
Arnold and Susan Fine
John Steeves Law
Doug McArthur
Holly Robertson and
Vancouver Bar Association
The Fleishman Family
Corporation
P Anthony McArthur
Gaetano Amato
Vancouver Foundation
The Hon Justice
Carl Jonsson
McEachern Harris & Brown
J R Donald Rose
Barbara Vanderburgh
S David Frankel
Joseph M Prodor Law
Nicholas McHaffie
Robert D Ross, QC
Peeyush Varshney
The Hon J Gary Cohen and
Corporation
Todd McKendrick
The Hon Justice
The Vazakas Family
D Bruce Fraser
Patrick J Julian
Ian McKenzie
M Anne Rowles
Elizabeth Watson
The Hon John Fraser, PC,
Dr Sultan Karim
Craig T McLeod
Joan L Rush
Webster Hudson &
OC, OBC, CD, QC, LLD
Hubert B Kaun
McMillan LLP
The Hon Justice
Coombe LLP
Sharon Geraghty
Thomas Kay
Megan Ellis & Company
John Savage
Ian Wilkie
Anne Giardini, QC
John Keene
Harold John Meyerman
Douglas G Shields
Sandra Wilkins
Nash N S Gill
Hsen-lin Khng
Miller Thomson LLP
The Hon Justice
William A Ferguson
Paul L Goldman
Winston and Clare Kiang
Mary and Kyle Mitchell
Jon Sigurdson
Law Practice
Goodmans LLP
Terry and Carol Kline
Paul Mitchell, QC
John R Singleton, QC
The Williams and Anton
Brad and Audrey Grant
and Family
Darcy and Lori Moch
Prof J C Smith
Families
The Hon Justice
Kootenay Bar Association
Maria Morellato, QC
The Hon Justice Lynn Smith
Patrick Williams
Victoria Gray
Michael Korenberg
Stuart Morrow
Ben So
Paul C Wilson
Mark Grenville
Tova Grace Kornfeld
Michael J Mueller
Seline Siu Yin So
Warren T Wilson, QC
Robert J Gritten
Kowarsky and Family
Dawna Muller
Yvonne L So
Wade Winkler
Robert Groves
KPMG Inc
Alison Murray, QC
Gary R Sollis
Wm Wrigley Jr Company
Gudmundseth
Miriam Kresivo
Forrest L Nelson
Dean & Professor
Foundation
Mickelson LLP
Robert Douglas Laing
New Relationship Trust
Seok-Eon Song
Steven G Wong
Guild Yule LLP
Miranda Lam and
Corporation
Leona M Sparrow
Woodbridge Corporation
Angus M Gunn, Jr
Michael Johnson
Lisa Newby (née Oliver)
Stanley Tessmer Law
Ian Worland and
H Bjorn Hareid
Yoke Lam
Anu Nijhawan
Corporation
Caroline Richardson
Harper Grey LLP
Lando & Company LLP
Richard J Nixon
Stephen MacAdams Law
William Worrall, QC
James Harper
Stan Lanyon, QC
Michael O’Keefe, QC
Corporation
Richard W Wozney
Douglas K Harrison
Bruce Laughton, QC
The Hon Willis E O’Leary, QC
Anne M Stewart, QC
William J Wright
Bruce Harwood
Legal Services Society of BC
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Colette and Marvin
Wen Wu
William Justus Havelaar
John F Leighton
Oyen Wiggs Green &
Storrow, QC
Mark Yang
Dr. M Anthony Hickling
Lenczner Slaght Royce
Mutala LLP
Arlene Strom and
Jia Chen and Xusheng Yang
Craig J Hill
Smith Griffin LLP
Pape Slater Teillet
Colin Jackson
Alan Y L Yeung
The Hobkirk Family
Sarah Lerchs
Master Alan Patterson
Robert Swift
Young Anderson Barristers
Ana-Maria Hobrough and
Jay K Lewis
Cheri Pedersen
Ashley John Taylor
and Solicitors
Geoffrey Glave
The Hon Justice Linda A Loo
Kimberly Thomas
Linda and Ted Zacks
Patricia Lysyk
Thorsteinssons LLP
Yulin Jerry Zhang
Stephanie P Lysyk
Torys LLP
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