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The society's primary mandate under the Legal Profession Act [2] is to uphold and protect the public interest in the administration of justice by preserving and protecting the rights and freedoms of all persons, ensuring the independence, integrity, honour and competence of lawyers, establishing standards and programs for the education, professional responsibility and competence of BC lawyers.
In practice, the Attorney General appoints an advisory committee which includes these officials and also the Chief Judge of the Provincial Court, the president of the British Columbia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association and the deputy attorney general. [2] The Attorney General is automatically appointed as King's Counsel on taking office. [3]
C. Kim Campbell; Tom Campbell (Canadian politician) Frank Caputo; Alfred Carrothers; Beverley Cochrane Cayley; Ronald Ian Cheffins; Tom Christensen (politician)
Official portrait of Mary Southin on her appointment to the British Columbia Supreme Court. Mary Frances Southin (born 1931) is a retired Canadian judge. She was the first woman to become a Queen's Counsel in British Columbia, to be elected a Bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia, and to be a head of a law society in the Commonwealth.
Osgoode Hall Law School: Supreme Court of British Columbia: 22 Francis Alexander Anglin (1865–1933) Ontario: February 23, 1909 – February 27, 1933: September 16, 1924 – February 27, 1933: 24 years, 4 days 8 years, 164 days Laurier (as puisne justice); King (as chief justice) The Law Society of Upper Canada (1888)
Certified Specialist of The Law Society of Ontario: Lawyers who are designated Certified Specialist are recognized and experienced in their field of law and have met high standards imposed by the Law Society of Ontario. [9] This is commonly identified as modern day replacement to the King's Counsel (KC) designation in the province of Ontario. [10]
The national office of the Canadian Bar Association is located in Ottawa.With a staff of 80, the national office provides legislative monitoring and liaison (60 - 70 submissions are made federally each year), membership, continuing legal education, translation, meeting coordination, accounting, data processing, communications, printing, and professional services.
Williams was heavily involved in a number of organizations relating to the legal profession and the justice system. At various times he was a member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal; a commissioner on the British Columbia Law Reform Commission; chair of the British Columbia Legal Aid Society; and Governor of the British Columbia Law ...