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Members elected to the CBA (B.C. Branch) Executive Committee for 1994/95 Vice-President
B. C. Branch Executive Officers:
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John Waddell Stewart Waddell Raponi & McLean, Victoria
Secreta~- Treasurer
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Emily Reid, Q.C. Department of Justice, Vancouver
Past-President •
J. Parker MacCarthy MacCarthy Ridgway, Duncan
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Michael Brecknell Hope Heinrich, Prince George Judith Milliken Crown Counsel, Vancouver Douglas Robinson Lawson Lundell Lawson & Mcintosh, Vancouver Gordon Turri££ Douglas Symes & Brissenden, Vancouver
Members elected to the CBA (B.C. Branch) Provincial Council Kootenay: •
Dana L. Urban Crown Counsel
Nanaimo: •
James Vanstone Clark & Company
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Westminster: • •
Prince Rupert: •
Herman J. Seidemann Silversides Wilson & Seidemann
Vancouver: • • • • • • • • • •
Emily Reid, Q.C. Department of Justice Gordon Turriff Douglas Symes & Brissenden Douglas F. Robinson Lawson Lundell Lawson & Mcintosh Karen A.R. Dickson Swinton & Company Gregory Steele Steele & Company Kerry-Lynne Findlay Connell Lightbody S. Lynn Burns PLTC Elizabeth B. Lyall Russell & DuMoulin Catherine Sas Sas, Catherine A. Brenda J. Brown Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson
Victoria: •
Paul G. Scambler Clay & Company
Mary E. Mout Quadra Legal Centre Pedro deCouto Crown Counsel - Regional JohnJ.Lenaghan Lenaghan and Company
Yale: •
Kenneth J. Sarnecki Salloum Doak
Yale (Okanagan/Similkameen District): •
Kathryn J. Ginther Anderson Fowle Associates
Legal studies fellow announced Janine Benedet of Burnaby has been awarded the prestigious Viscount Bennett Fellowship for graduate legal studies for the 1994/95 academic term. Benedet was chosen from a field of 58 legal scholars across Canada. She will pursue a one-year Master of Laws degree at the University of Michigan. Benedet plans to study the doctrine of consent as it is applied to sexual assault, in particular by comparison to tort law, such as in consent to medical treatment, and to criminal assault and contractual relations. She will also conduct a comparative examination of the law of consent as it has developed in various Common Law jurisdictions. A graduate of UBC (1993), she ranked first in her class and was awarded the Law Society of B.C. Gold Medal for her impressiv~ academic record. The fellowship, valued at $20,000, is awarded annually to Canadian students, encourages a high standard of legal education, training and ethics. For information on applying for the 1995 I 96 Viscount Bennett Fellowship, contact the National CBA office at (613) 237-2925. C
Council approves resolution re: legal aid delivery On June 18, 1994, Provincial Council debated the issue of the proposed Legal Services Society (LSS) staff delivery plan. A resolution was passed that urges LSS to defer any further implementation of the reform package respecting staff delivery until savings and service improvements throughstaffdeliverycan be demonstrated. As well, the resolution states its opposition to specific government funding tied to the provision of staff delivery of legal aid. This is specifically focused at suggestions that a special govern-
ment warrant would be issued for some $10 million to establish the proposed 50% staff delivery model. Following the Council meeting, President Parker MacCarthy sent a letter to Attorney General Colin Gabelmann with copies to Treasury Board members urging the government not to issue any warrants at this time until the pilot projects have run for a length of time and demonstrate cost savings for this proposed model of legal aid delivery. At the time of publication, no response had been received from the Attorney. C