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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.
A. Boyd Ferris QC (July 23, 1929 – July 31, 1989) was a Canadian lawyer practising in Vancouver, British Columbia.He served as president of the British Columbia branch of the Canadian Bar Association, and then as the national president of the CBA. [1]
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]
John Wallace de Beque Farris, QC (December 3, 1878 – February 25, 1970) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.. Born in White's Cove, New Brunswick, the son of Laughlin P. Farris and Louise Hay, he was educated at St. Martin's Seminary, received his Bachelor of Arts from Acadia University and received his Bachelor of Law from the University of Pennsylvania.
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
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 ...
The Peter A. Allard School of Law (abbreviated as Allard Law) is the law school of the University of British Columbia. [3] The faculty offers the Juris Doctor degree. The faculty features courses on business law, tax law, environmental and natural resource law, indigenous law, Pacific Rim issues, and feminist legal theory.
Anderson was born and raised in Nanaimo, British Columbia. [3] In 2015, he graduated from Vancouver Island University with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in criminology. [4] He later attended Osgoode Hall Law School, [2] and practiced as a commercial lawyer for over six years prior to entering provincial politics.